◄ Genesis 7:3 ►
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Good News Translation
Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.

New Revised Standard Version
and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all the earth.

Contemporary English Version
Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird with you. Do this so there will always be animals and birds on the earth.

New American Bible
likewise, of every bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep their progeny alive over all the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

Context
Entering the Ark
…2Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female. 3But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.4For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.…
Cross References
Genesis 6:20
Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.

Genesis 7:2
Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.

Genesis 7:4
For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:8
And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,

Genesis 7:2
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