1 The Lord said to Noah, “You and your entire household go into the ark, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me among this generation.
2 Take with you seven each of every clean animal, the male and its female, and two each of every unclean animal, the male and its female,
3 and seven each of birds of the air, the male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
4 In seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from the face of the earth.”