Genesis 7:2-4

International Standard Version

² You are to take with you seven pairs^[a] of every clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of the unclean animals, a male and its mate; ³ along with seven pairs^[b] of the flying birds, male and female, in order to keep their offspring alive on the surface of all the earth. ⁴ Seven days from now I’ll send rain on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights, and I’ll destroy every living creature that I’ve made.”