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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 7:2 Catholic Bible: Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/genesis/7-2.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/genesis/7-2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/7-2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/1.htm">Genesis</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/7.htm">Chapter 7</a> > Verse 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/7-1.htm" title="Genesis 7:1">◄</a> Genesis 7:2 <a href="../genesis/7-3.htm" title="Genesis 7:3">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/genesis/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/genesis/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and its mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate;<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/genesis/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Take seven pairs of every kind of animal that can be used for sacrifice and one pair of all others. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate;<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/genesis/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.</p><p class="hdg">every clean.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/7-8.htm">Genesis 7:8</a> And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/6-19.htm">Genesis 6:19-21</a> And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/8-20.htm">Genesis 8:20</a> And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/11-1.htm">Leviticus 11:1-47</a> And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/14-1.htm">Deuteronomy 14:1-21</a> Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead; . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/10-11.htm">Acts 10:11-15</a> And he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great linen sheet let down by the four corners from heaven to the earth: . . . </p><p class="hdg">sevens.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/10-10.htm">Leviticus 10:10</a> And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/44-23.htm">Ezekiel 44:23</a> And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/genesis/7.htm">Entering the Ark</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation. <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl">Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.</span><span class="reftext">3</span>But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/6-19.htm">Genesis 6:19</a></span><br />And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/7-3.htm">Genesis 7:3</a></span><br />But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/7-8.htm">Genesis 7:8</a></span><br />And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/8-20.htm">Genesis 8:20</a></span><br />And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/11-1.htm">Leviticus 11:1</a></span><br />And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/14-3.htm">Deuteronomy 14:3</a></span><br />Eat not the things that are unclean.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/6-20.htm">Animal</a> <a href="/genesis/6-20.htm">Animals</a> <a href="/genesis/6-7.htm">Beast</a> <a href="/genesis/3-14.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/revelation/22-14.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/genesis/6-19.htm">Female</a> <a href="/romans/1-26.htm">Females</a> <a href="/genesis/6-21.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/genesis/6-19.htm">Male</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-34.htm">Males</a> <a href="/nahum/2-12.htm">Mate</a> <a href="/revelation/6-5.htm">Pair</a> <a href="/luke/10-1.htm">Pairs</a> <a href="/genesis/5-31.htm">Seven</a> <a href="/genesis/7-3.htm">Sevens</a> <a href="/revelation/22-15.htm">Unclean</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/7-8.htm">Animal</a> <a href="/genesis/7-8.htm">Animals</a> <a href="/genesis/7-14.htm">Beast</a> <a href="/genesis/7-8.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/genesis/7-8.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/genesis/7-3.htm">Female</a> <a href="/genesis/7-3.htm">Females</a> <a href="/genesis/7-3.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/genesis/7-3.htm">Male</a> <a href="/genesis/7-3.htm">Males</a> <a href="/genesis/30-41.htm">Mate</a> <a href="/exodus/25-35.htm">Pair</a> <a href="/genesis/7-3.htm">Pairs</a> <a href="/genesis/7-3.htm">Seven</a> <a href="/genesis/7-3.htm">Sevens</a> <a href="/genesis/7-8.htm">Unclean</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/7-2.htm">Genesis 7:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/7-2.htm">Genesis 7:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/7-2.htm">Genesis 7:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/7-2.htm">Genesis 7:2 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/7-2.htm">Genesis 7:2 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/7-2.htm">Genesis 7:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/7-2.htm">Genesis 7:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/7-2.htm">Genesis 7:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/genesis/7-2.htm">Genesis 7:2 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a and animal animals are by clean every female his its kind male mate not of seven sevens shall Take that the two unclean with you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/7-2.htm">OT Law: Genesis 7:2 You shall take seven pairs of every (Gen. 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