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1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
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The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
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Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
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and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
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Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
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And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
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Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
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male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
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And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
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