Genesis 7:3 - The Scriptures 2009

and of birds of the heavens seven pairs, male and female, to keep offspring 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 after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, and of all creeping creatures of the ground after their kind, two of each are to come to you, to keep them alive.

Genesis 7:2

“Of all the clean beasts take with you seven pairs, a male and his female; and of the beasts that are unclean two, a male and his female;

Genesis 7:4

“For after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, and shall wipe from the face of the earth all that stand that I created.”

Genesis 7:8

Of the clean beasts and of the beasts that are unclean, and of birds, and of all that creep on the earth,

Genesis 8:20

And Noaḥ built a slaughter-place to יהוה, and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and offered ascending offerings on the slaughter-place.

Leviticus 11:11

‘They are an abomination to you – of their flesh you do not eat, and their carcasses you abominate.