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What does Genesis 7:8 mean?

"Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground"

— Genesis 7:8 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

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Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

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Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

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Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

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went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

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After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.

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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

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