⁴ And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions^(A) from some of the firstborn of his flock.^(B) The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,^(C)

² Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean^(A) animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, ³ and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive^(B) throughout the earth. ⁴ Seven days from now I will send rain^(C) on the earth^(D) for forty days^(E) and forty nights,^(F) and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.^(G)”

⁵ And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.^(H)

⁶ Noah was six hundred years old^(I) when the floodwaters came on the earth. ⁷ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark^(J) to escape the waters of the flood. ⁸ Pairs of clean and unclean^(K) animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,

²⁰ Then Noah built an altar to the Lord^(A) and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean^(B) birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings^(C) on it.