6. Noah was 600 years old at the time the rains came.
7. He and his family went into the boat to be saved from the flood. His wife and his sons and their wives were on the boat with him.
8. All the clean animals, all the other animals on the earth, the birds, and everything that crawls on the earth
9. went into the boat with Noah. These animals went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God commanded.
10. Seven days later the flood started. The rain began to fall on the earth.