Genesis 7:3-7 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

3. Also take seven of every kind of bird. Take male and female of them. That will keep every kind alive. Then they can spread out again over the whole earth.

4. "Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights. I will destroy from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."

5. Noah did everything the Lord commanded him to do.

6. Noah was 600 years old when the flood came on the earth.

7. He and his sons entered the ark. His wife and his sons' wives went with them. They entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7