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Genesis 7:2 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female. "
Genesis 7:2
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1 The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
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Genesis 7:1
"The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation."
Genesis 7:3
"Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth."
Genesis 7:4
"In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”"
Genesis 7:5
"Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him."
Genesis 7:6
"Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth."
Genesis 7:7
"Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters."
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