2 “Of all the clean beasts take with you seven pairs, a male and his female; and of the beasts that are unclean two, a male and his female;
3 and of birds of the heavens seven pairs, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
4 “For after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, and shall wipe from the face of the earth all that stand that I created.”
5 And Noaḥ did according to all that יהוה commanded him.
6 Now Noaḥ was six hundred years old when the flood-waters were on the earth.
7 And Noaḥ and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of the clean beasts and of the beasts that are unclean, and of birds, and of all that creep on the earth,