Genesis 7:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ of the fowl also of the air, seven and seven, male and female: to keep seed alive upon the face of all 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ 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 fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

Genesis 7:2

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;

Genesis 7:4

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

Genesis 7:8

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the ground,

Genesis 8:20

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Leviticus 11:11

and they shall be an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcases ye shall have in abomination.