⁷ He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the ·boat [ark] to escape the waters of the flood. ⁸ The clean animals [7:2], the unclean animals, the birds, and everything that ·crawls [creeps] on the ground ⁹ came to Noah. They went into the ·boat [ark] in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.