you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

Let the heavens and the earth praise him, along with the seas and everything that swims in them!

anything that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters of the earth.

God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.

Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.

So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure of creeping thing and beast – detestable images – and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.

So the Lord said, “I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth – everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.”

So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.