1 The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
2 You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,
3 and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.
4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”