Thematic Bible: Two of every sort preserved in the ark
Thematic Bible
Animals » Two of every sort preserved in the ark
And of every living thing of all flesh [found on land], you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. Of fowls and birds according to their kinds, of beasts according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind -- "two of every sort shall come in with you, that they may be kept alive.
Of every clean beast you shall receive and take with you seven pairs, the male and his mate, and of beasts that are not clean a pair of each kind, the male and his mate, Also of the birds of the air seven pairs, the male and the female, to keep seed [their kind] alive over all the earth or land.
they came [motivated by God] into the ark with Noah two by two, the male and the female, just as God had commanded Noah.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Every animal, every crawling thing, every bird—and whatever moves on the land—went out by families (types, groupings) from the ark.