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Genesis 7:2-4
English Standard Version
Genesis 7:2-4
English Standard Version
2 Take with you seven pairs of all (A)clean animals,[a] the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, 3 and seven pairs[b] of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days (B)I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, (C)and every living thing[c] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”
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- Genesis 7:2 Or seven of each kind of clean animal
- Genesis 7:3 Or seven of each kind
- Genesis 7:4 Hebrew all existence; also verse 23
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The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025.
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