Genesis 7:1-10 - Entering The Ark

¹ Then the LORD told Noah, "Come you and all your household into the ark, because I've seen that you alone are righteous in this generation. ² You are to take with you seven pairs 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 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." ⁵ Noah did everything that the LORD commanded.

⁶ Noah was 600 years old when water began to flood the earth. ⁷ Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark with him before the flood waters arrived. ⁸ From both clean and unclean animals, from birds, and from everything that crawls on the ground, ⁹ two by two, male and female, they entered the ark to join Noah, just as God had commanded. ¹⁰ Seven days later, the flooding started.