Genesis 7:2
Good News Translation
Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.

New Revised Standard Version
Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and its mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate;

Contemporary English Version
Take seven pairs of every kind of animal that can be used for sacrifice and one pair of all others.

New American Bible
Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.

every clean.

Genesis 7:8 And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,

Genesis 6:19-21 And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female. . . .

Genesis 8:20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

Leviticus 11:1-47 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: . . .

Deuteronomy 14:1-21 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead; . . .

Acts 10:11-15 And he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great linen sheet let down by the four corners from heaven to the earth: . . .

sevens.

Leviticus 10:10 And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean:

Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.

Context
Entering the Ark
1And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation. 2Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.3But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.…
Cross References
Genesis 6:19
And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.

Genesis 7:3
But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 7:8
And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,

Genesis 8:20
And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

Leviticus 11:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

Deuteronomy 14:3
Eat not the things that are unclean.

Genesis 7:1
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