<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.&#8221;<n id="1" /> It was so.

So the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth &#8211; everything from humankind to animals,<n id="1" /> including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.&#8221;p>

So the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> destroyed<n id="2" /> 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.<n id="3" /> They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.<n id="4" />