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Genesis 7:3

Good News Translation

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.

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Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.

Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made.”

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.

Such creatures must be considered unclean. You must not eat them or even touch their dead bodies.