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Genesis 7:8-9
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Genesis 7:8-9
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8 Pairs[a] of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground, 9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah,[b] just as God had commanded him.[c]
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- Genesis 7:8 tn Heb “two two” meaning “in twos.”
- Genesis 7:9 tn The Hebrew text of vv. 8-9a reads, “From the clean animal[s] and from the animal[s] which are not clean and from the bird[s] and everything that creeps on the ground, two two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female.”
- Genesis 7:9 tn Heb “Noah”; the pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
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