“Of all the clean beasts take with you seven pairs, a male and his female; and of the beasts that are unclean two, a male and his female;
so as to make a distinction between the set-apart and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,
And Noaḥ
Of the clean beasts and of the beasts that are unclean, and of birds, and of all that creep on the earth,
“And they are to teach My people the difference between the set-apart and the profane, and make them know what is unclean and clean.
and of birds of the heavens seven pairs, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.