Genesis 7:3

New American Standard Bible

also of the birds of the sky, seven pairs, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Update Bible Version
of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

New Century Version
Take seven pairs of all the birds of the sky, each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood.

New English Translation
and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Of fowls of the air also by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

World English Bible
Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

Amplified Bible
also of the birds of the air, seven pair, the male and the female, to keep the offspring alive on the surface of the earth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but also of volatils of heuene thou schalt take, bi seuene and bi seuene, male and female, that her seed be saued on the face of al erthe.

Young's Literal Translation
also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;

Berean Standard Bible
and also seven of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, in order to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

Contemporary English Version
Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird with you. Do this so there will always be animals and birds on the earth.

Complete Jewish Bible
also of the birds in the air take seven couples — in order to preserve their species throughout the earth.

American Standard Version
of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Bible in Basic English
And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Of foules also of the ayre seuen and seuen, the male and the female, to kepe seede alyue vpon the face of all the whole earth.

Darby Translation
Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

Easy-to-Read Version
Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of all the birds. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the other animals are destroyed.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
of the fowl also of the air, seven and seven, male and female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

King James Version (1611)
Of fowles also of the aire, by seuens, the male & the female; to keepe seed aliue vpon the face of all the earth.

King James Version
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

New Life Bible
And take with you seven of every kind of bird of the sky of each sex, to keep their kind alive over all the earth.

New Revised Standard
and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all the earth.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Also of the bird of the heavens, by sevens, male and female, - to keep alive a seed on the face of all the earth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Of the foules also of the heauen by seuens, male and female, to keepe seede aliue vpon the whole earth.

George Lamsa Translation
Likewise, of the fowls of the air that are clean seven pairs, both males and the females; to keep their posterity alive upon the face of the earth.

Good News Translation
Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

Revised Standard Version
and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And of clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of all unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on all the earth.

English Revised Version
of the fowl also of the air, seven and seven, male and female: to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Christian Standard Bible®
and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky—in order to keep offspring alive throughout the earth.

Hebrew Names Version
Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the eretz.

Lexham English Bible
as well as from the birds of heaven seven pairs, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of the earth.

Literal Translation
And take of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep alive seed on the face of the earth.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Like wyse of the foules vnder the heauen, seuen and seuen, the male and his female, that there maye be sede left a lyue vpon the whole earth.

New King James Version
also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth.

New Living Translation
Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that all life will survive on the earth after the flood.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Legacy Standard Bible
also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of all the earth.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation. ² "You shall take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and his female; ³ also of the birds of the sky, seven pairs, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.⁴ "For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:19 - two Genesis 7:14 - They Genesis 7:16 - as Joshua 6:4 - seven times

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and his female,.... That is, of such as were clean; seven couple of these were to be brought into the ark, for the like use as of the clean beasts, and those under the law; and so at this time, and here meant were turtledoves, and young pigeons that were for sacrifice; and the rest were for food: and the design of bringing both into the ark was,

to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth; that the species of creatures might be continued, both of beasts and birds, clean and unclean.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- The Ark Was Entered

2. טהור ṭâhôr “clean, fit for food or sacrifice.”

4. יקוּם y^eqûm “standing thing; what grows up, whether animal or plant.” Compare קמה qāmâh “stalk, or standing corn.”

Genesis 7:1-4

Here is found the command to enter the ark. The general direction in the preceding chapter was given many years ago, before the ark was commenced. Now, when it is completed, a more specific command is issued. “For thee have I seen righteous before me.” Noah has accepted the mercy of God, is therefore set right in point of law, and walks aright in point of practice. The Lord recognizes this indication of an adopted and renewed son. “In this age” he and his were the solitary family so characterized.

Genesis 7:2-3

Of all clean cattle. - Here the distinction of clean and unclean animals meets us without any previous notice. How it became known to Noah we are not informed. From the former direction it appears that the animals were to enter by pairs. Now it is further arranged that there are to be seven pairs of the clean cattle and fowl, and only one pair of the unclean.

Genesis 7:4

Seven days after the issue of the command the rain is to commence, and continue for forty days and nights without ceasing. “Every standing thing” means every plant and animal on the land.

Genesis 7:5-9

The execution of the command is recorded and fully particularized with the additional circumstance of the age of Noah. “The son of six hundred years,” in his six hundredth year. “Went they unto Noah.” They seem to have come under the influence of a special instinct, so that Noah did not require to gather them. Seven days were employed in receiving them, and storing provisions for them.