Pairs

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;

…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.

Each day there were six Levites on the east, four on the north, four on the south, and two pairs at the storehouse.

Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?