Genesis 7:3

Take 7 boy ones and 7 girl ones of each kind of bird from all over the world with you into the boat. All those animals and birds will be safe with you. That way, after the flood, there will always be animals and birds living on the earth.

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In The King James Version

Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

In Context

2And take every kind of animal with you. There are 2 groups of animals that I want you to take into the boat. In the first group there are animals that I call clean animals. Those clean animals are the animals that you can kill and burn to show me respect. Take 7 boy ones and 7 girl ones of those clean animals into the boat. But the second group of animals, I call them unclean. You are not allowed to kill them and burn them to show me respect. Take only 1 boy one and 1 girl one of those unclean animals.

4I am going to make rain fall down from the sky in 7 days time. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights so that everything I made will die and be washed away.”

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:2-5

Noah Invited into the Ark. ( b. c. 2349.) 1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and… Read the whole commentary →

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