1. The Lord said to Noah, “You and your entire household go into the ark, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me among this generation.
2. Take with you seven each of every clean animal, the male and its female, and two each of every unclean animal, the male and its female,
3. and seven each of birds of the air, the male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
4. In seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from the face of the earth.”
5. And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him.
6. Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
7. And Noah went with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives into the ark because of the floodwaters.
8. Everything that creeps on the land from clean and unclean animals and birds
9. came in two by two, male and female, to Noah into the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
10. After seven days, the waters of the flood were on the earth.
11. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the same day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12. The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13. On the very same day Noah and the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark.
14. They and every wild animal according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort,
15. went with Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which was the breath of life.
16. So they went in, male and female of all flesh, just as God had commanded him; then the Lord shut him in.