² You shall take ^[a]with you ^[b]seven pairs of every ^(A)clean animal, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and his female; ³ also of the birds of the sky, ^[c]seven pairs, male and female, to keep their ^[d]offspring alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴ For after ^(B)seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for ^(C)forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the land ^(D)every living thing that I have made.”