Genesis 7:2-4

GOD’S WORD Translation

² Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal (a male and a female of each) and one pair of every kind of unclean ^[a] animal (a male and a female). ³ Also, take seven pairs of every kind of bird (a male and a female of each) to preserve animal life all over the earth after the flood. ⁴ In seven days I will send rain to the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. I will wipe off the face of the earth every living creature that I have made.”