Genesis 7:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Of every clean beast you shall receive and take with you seven pairs, the male and his mate, and of beasts that are not clean a pair of each kind, the male and his mate, [Lev. 11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, the male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female:

Common English Bible

² From every clean animal, take seven pairs, a male and his mate; and from every unclean animal, take one pair, a male and his mate;

Catholic Public Domain Version

² From all the clean animals, take seven and seven, the male and the female. Yet truly, from animals that are unclean, take two and two, the male and the female.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and female.

Genesis 7:2 Cross References

Genesis 7:3

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.

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.

Ezekiel 44:23

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

Leviticus 10:10

You are to distinguish between the holy and the common and between the unclean and the clean,