Genesis 6:9-22 - God Warns Noah
9 This is the ACCOUNT OF NOAH. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. He walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth was corrupt in God's sight. It was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become. All the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 God said to Noah: I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am going to destroy them with the earth.
14 BUILD AN ARK of cypress wood (a resinous tree). Make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. 16 Build a roof on it and finish the ark to within eighteen inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle, and upper decks.
17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens. Every creature that has the breath of life in it, everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You will enter the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. 19 Bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal, and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 Take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them. 22 Noah did everything exactly as God commanded him.