1 Then the ^aLord said to Noah, ^b“Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that ^cyou are righteous before Me in this generation.  ‡

2 You shall take with you seven each of every ^aclean animal, a male and his female; ^btwo each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female;  ‡

3 also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep¹ the species alive on the face of all the earth.  ‡

4 For after ^aseven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth ^bforty days and forty nights, and I will¹ destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.”  ‡

5 ^aAnd Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him.  ‡