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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 7, Verse 2

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And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
King James Version
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.
American Standard Version
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:
New English Translation
You must take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,
World English Bible
You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
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Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
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For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
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And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
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And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
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And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
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Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
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There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
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And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
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And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.