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Genesis 7:3-5
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Genesis 7:3-5
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3 Take seven of every kind of bird. Take males and females. Do this so that they will give birth to young ones. Then each different kind of animal and bird will continue to live on the earth.[a]
4 In seven days, I will cause rain to fall on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights. In that way, I will destroy every living thing that I have made on the earth.’
5 Noah did everything that God told him to do.
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- 7:3 Clean animals are the kinds of animal that God accepted as a sacrifice. God told Noah to take more clean animals so that Noah could offer a sacrifice to God. There would still be animals that remained to give birth to young animals.
Genesis 7:3-5
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Genesis 7:3-5
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3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive(A) throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain(B) on the earth(C) for forty days(D) and forty nights,(E) and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.(F)”
5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.(G)
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