Animals: Two of Every Sort Preserved in the Ark

And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

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.

And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

…came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.