How many people does Genesis say were inside Noah’s Ark?

Genesis says eight people were inside Noah’s Ark.

The eight are Noah, his wife, Noah’s three sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and the three wives of those sons. Genesis 7:13 describes this family entering the Ark before the Flood, while later biblical writing also refers to Noah as being saved with seven other people.

The number is easy to confuse with other numbers in the story, including forty days of rain, 150 days during which the waters prevailed, and the counts of animals brought aboard. Eight refers specifically to the human occupants named in the biblical narrative.

Genesis does not give the names of Noah’s wife or his daughters-in-law. Later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions supply additional names or genealogical details, but those traditions do not change the eight-person total stated for the Ark’s human survivors in Genesis.