Genesis 7:3
1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
- KJV
- Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
- WEB
- Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
- ASV
- of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
- DARBY
- Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.
- BLB
- also from each bird of the heavens, seven [by] seven, male and female, to keep alive the seed upon the face of all the earth.
- ÅB
- likeså av himmelens fugler syv par, han og hun, for å holde deres slekter i live på jorden.
- OTB
- og også syv par av alle slags fugler, hann og hunn, for å holde deres avkom i live over hele jordens overflate.
- B1930
- likeså av himmelens fugler syv par, han og hun, for å holde deres slekter i live på jorden.