Genesis 7:3 - Plain English Version

³ And the birds too. They have to go on to the big boat. Get 7 males and 7 females from each sort of bird. That’s how you can keep those birds and animals alive, so that there will always be birds and animals on the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ 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)

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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.

Genesis 7:3 Cross References

Genesis 6:20

And you have to do the same thing for all those different sorts of birds. Get one male and one female of all of those birds. And you have to do the same thing for all those animals that crawl around on the ground. You have to get one male and one female of all those animals too. I will get 2 of every sort of animal to come to you, so you can keep them alive.

Genesis 7:2

You have to take every sort of animal with you into that big boat. You know the sorts of animals that are right for you to give to me? Well, get 7 males and 7 females from each of those sorts of animals. And get all the other animals too, the animals that are not right to give to me. Get one male and one female from each of those sorts of animals. They all have to go on to the big boat.

Genesis 7:4

You see, I’m going to send a big rain. That rain will come in 7 days time. Then it will keep on raining all the time for 40 days. The flood water will come up and wash away all the things that I have made.”

Genesis 7:8

And a big mob of animals came to Noah, and he took them into the boat too, just like God told him to. There were all sorts of animals. There were animals that were the right sort to give to God, and animals that were not the right sort to give to God. And there were birds and even animals that crawl around on the ground. And there were males and females of each sort of animal, and they went in 2 at a time. They all came together on that big boat, just like God wanted them to.

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah piled up stones to make a special table with a flat top, and he got one of each sort of animal and bird that are the right sorts to give to God, and he killed them, and he put them on that special table, and he burned them there. He did that to give them to God, to say thank you to God.