Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.
so that you can distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean,