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Pairs[a] of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground, male and female, came into the ark to Noah,[b] just as God had commanded him.[c] 10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 7:8 tn Heb “two two” meaning “in twos.”
  2. Genesis 7:9 tn The Hebrew text of vv. 8-9a reads, “From the clean animal[s] and from the animal[s] which are not clean and from the bird[s] and everything that creeps on the ground, two two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female.”
  3. Genesis 7:9 tn Heb “Noah”; the pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  4. Genesis 7:10 tn Heb “came upon.”

Pairs of clean and unclean(A) animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.(B) 10 And after the seven days(C) the floodwaters came on the earth.

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