3 Take seven pairs of all the birds of the sky, each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood.
4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made.”
5 Noah did everything the Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came.
7 He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat to escape the waters of the flood.
8 The clean animals, the unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls on the ground
9 came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.