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,

⁸ Pairs of clean and unclean^(A) animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,

⁹ male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.^(A)

¹⁴ They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,^(A) everything with wings. ¹⁵ Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.^{(B) 16} The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah.^(C) Then the Lord shut him in.