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and from the birds in the sky as well, take seven pairs, male and female, so that their offspring will survive throughout the earth.
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In seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe off from the fertile land every living thing that I have made."
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Noah did everything the LORD commanded him.
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Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters arrived on earth.
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Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him entered the ark to escape the floodwaters.