and seven pairs[a] of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. For in seven days (A)I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, (B)and every living thing[b] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” (C)And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 7:3 Or seven of each kind
  2. Genesis 7:4 Hebrew all existence; also verse 23

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