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18 Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives along with him. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever swarms on the earth went out of the ship, species by species.[a]

20 Noah built an altar to the Lord and took from every clean animal and every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 8:19 Literally by their families. Species here is not a narrow technical term as it is in present-day science.

18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.(A) 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord(B) and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean(C) birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings(D) on it.

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