🌱WEB · Genesis 7:2
What does Genesis 7:2 mean?
"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."
— Genesis 7:2 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
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.
Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
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