Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.
Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.
A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,
Noah built an altar to the Lord; he took one of each kind of ritually clean animal and bird, and burned them whole as a sacrifice on the altar.
“The priests are to teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is not, and between what is ritually clean and what is not.
You must distinguish between what belongs to God and what is for general use, between what is ritually clean and what is unclean.