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Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
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Take with you seven pairs of all clean 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 air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.
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For in seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
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And 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,