3 as well as from the birds of heaven seven pairs, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of the earth.
4 For within seven days I will send rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground.”
5 And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood waters came upon the earth.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean animals, and of animals which are not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,
9 two of each went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.