Genesis 7:1-5

New International Reader's Version

7 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark with your whole family. I know that you are a godly man among the people of today. ² Take seven pairs of every kind of ‘clean’ animal with you. Take a male and a female of each kind. Take one pair of every kind of animal that is not ‘clean.’ Take a male and a female of each kind. ³ Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. Take a male and a female of each kind. Then every kind will be kept alive. They can spread out again over the whole earth. ⁴ Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights. I will destroy from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

⁵ Noah did everything the Lord commanded him to do.