² You shall take ^[a]with you of every ^(A)clean animal ^[b]by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female; ³ also of the birds of the ^[c]sky, ^[d]by sevens, male and female, to keep ^[e]offspring alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴ For after ^(B)seven more days, I will send rain on the earth ^(C)forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land ^(D)every living thing that I have made.”