The Great Flood
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.
6 Noah was asix hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.
7 aSo Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth,
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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