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Entering the Ark

Then the Lord told Noah, “Come—you and all your household—into the ark, because I’ve seen that you alone are righteous[a] in this generation. You are to take with you seven pairs[b] of every clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of the unclean animals, a male and its mate; along with seven pairs[c] of the flying birds, male and female, in order to keep their offspring alive on the surface of all the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 7:1 Lit. righteous before me
  2. Genesis 7:2 Lit. seven seven
  3. Genesis 7:3 Lit. seven seven