Genesis 7:3

In addition take seven pairs, male and female, of all the birds, so their different kinds will survive throughout 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

2Take with you seven pairs, male and female, of every kind of clean animal, and one pair, male and female, of every kind of unclean animal.

4In seven days I'm going to make it rain for forty days and nights. I'm going to wipe out from the surface of the earth all the living creatures I made.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:11They are repulsive. You must not eat their meat, and you must treat their dead bodies as repulsive.

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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