Thematic Bible: Two of every sort preserved in the ark
Thematic Bible
Animals » Two of every sort preserved in the ark
You are to bring two of every living thing into the ark so they may remain alive with you. They are to be male and female. From birds according to their species, from domestic animals according to their species, and from everything that crawls on the ground according to their species two of everything will come to you so they may remain alive.
You are to take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of the unclean animals, a male and its mate; along with seven pairs of the flying birds, male and female, in order to keep their offspring alive on the surface of all the earth.
two by two, male and female, they entered the ark to join Noah, just as God had commanded.
On the seventeenth day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, all the springs of the great deep burst open, the floodgates of the heavens were opened,
Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by groups.