3. and from the birds in the sky as well, take seven pairs, male and female, so that their offspring will survive throughout the earth.
4. In seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe off from the fertile land every living thing that I have made."
5. Noah did everything the Lord commanded him.
6. Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters arrived on earth.
7. Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark to escape the floodwaters.
8. From the clean and unclean animals, from the birds and everything crawling on the ground,
9. two of each, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, just as God commanded Noah.