Genesis 7:3-5

Revised Geneva Translation

³ “Also, take the birds of the heaven by sevens (male and female), to keep seed alive upon the whole Earth.

⁴ “For in seven days I will cause it to rain upon the Earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will destroy all the substance that I have made from off the Earth.”

⁵ Therefore, Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.