Genesis 7:1-10 - Entering The Ark
1 Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Go--you and all your household--into the ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before me in this generation. 2 From all the clean animals you must take for yourself {seven pairs}, a male and its mate. And from the animals that [are] not clean [you must take] two, a male and its mate, 3 as well as from the birds of heaven {seven pairs}, male and female, {to keep their kind alive} on the face of the earth. 4 For {within seven days} I will send rain upon the earth [for] forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground." 5 And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
6 Noah {was six hundred years old} when the flood waters came upon the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, and of animals which [are] not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground, 9 {two of each} went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it happened [that] after seven days the waters of the flood came over the earth.