Thematic Bible: Two of every sort preserved in the ark
Thematic Bible
Animals » Two of every sort preserved in the ark
And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female. Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.
Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female; And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.
In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.