Genesis 7:6-9 (Vespers, 1st reading)
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- Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.
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- So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
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- Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth,
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- two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.