Genesis 7:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all the earth.

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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

Of the birds according to their kinds and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind shall come in to you, to keep them alive.

Genesis 7:2

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;

Genesis 7:4

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

Genesis 7:8

Of clean animals and of animals that are not clean and of birds and of everything that creeps on the ground,

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Leviticus 11:11

and detestable they shall remain. Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall regard as detestable.