Bible Lynx Logo

The Book of Genesis, Chapter 7, Verse 3

View Previous Verses
2
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.
King James Version
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
American Standard Version
of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
New English Translation
and also seven pairs of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the entire earth.
World English Bible
Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
4
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.
5
And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6
And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7
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.
8
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11
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.
12
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;