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Genesis 6:20

18 But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

19 And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

21 You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”

22 So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.

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BSB
Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
KJV
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
WEB
Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
ASV
Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
DARBY
Of fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to thee, to keep [them] alive.
BLB
And from the bird according to its kind, [and] the animal according to its kind, [and] from every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every [kind] shall come to you to be kept alive.
ÅB
Av alle slags fugler og av alle slags fe og av alle slags kryp på jorden skal par for par komme inn til deg for å holdes i live.
OTB
Av fuglene etter deres slag, av dyrene etter deres slag, og av hver skapning som beveger seg på bakken etter sitt slag, to av hver slags skal komme til deg for å holdes i live.
B1930
Av alle slags fugler og av alle slags fe og av alle slags kryp på jorden skal par for par komme inn til dig for å holdes i live.

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Cross references

  • Acts 10:11–12

    He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.

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  • Genesis 2:19

    And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

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  • John 5:40

    yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

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  • Genesis 1:20–24

    And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

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  • Genesis 7:8–16

    The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

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  • Genesis 1:28

    God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

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