Genesis 7:2

Of every clean beast you shall take to you by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

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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.

In Context

1And the LORD said unto Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creeps upon the earth,

Leviticus 10:10And that all of you may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

Leviticus 11:11They shall be even an abomination unto you; all of you shall not eat of their flesh, but all of you shall have their carcasses in abomination.

Deuteronomy 14:1All of you are the children of the LORD your God: all of you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Acts 10:11And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

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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