Genesis 7:3 - Easy To Read Version

Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of all the birds. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the other animals are destroyed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Also of the birds of the air seven pairs, the male and the female, to keep seed [their kind] alive over all the earth or land.

American Standard Version (1901)

of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Common English Bible

and from the birds in the sky as well, take seven pairs, male and female, so that their offspring will survive throughout the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But also from the birds of the air, take seven and seven, the male and the female, so that offspring may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and 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 7:3 Cross References

Genesis 6:20

Find two of every kind of bird on the earth. And find two of every kind of animal on the earth. And find two of every kind of thing that crawls on the ground. Male and female of every kind of animal on the earth will be with you. Keep them alive on the boat.

Genesis 7:2

Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of every kind of clean animal. [49] And get one pair (one male and one female) of every other animal on the earth. Lead all these animals into the boat with you.

Genesis 7:4

Seven days from now I will send much rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights. And I will wipe everything off the face of the earth. I will destroy everything I made.”

Genesis 7:8

All the clean animals, [50] all the other animals on the earth, the birds, and everything that crawls on the earth

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar [55] to the Lord. Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals, [56] and Noah burned them on the altar as a gift to God.