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Then the LORD said to Noah, 1"Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that 2you are righteous before me in this generation.
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Take with you seven pairs of all 3clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,
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and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
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For in seven days 4I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, 5and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
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6And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
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two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
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And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.