Bible verse
and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
Genesis 7:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 7.
1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
KJV
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
ASV
of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
ERV
of the fowl also of the air, seven and seven, male and female: to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
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