Genesis 7:3
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
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.
In context
1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
2 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;
3 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.
4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
Genesis 7:3 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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.
- KJV King James Version
- Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
- WEB World English Bible
- Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
- ASV American Standard Version
- of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;
- DBY Darby Translation
- Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Of fowls of the air also by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.