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)”