3 also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep¹ the species alive on the face of all the earth.  ‡

4 For after ^aseven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth ^bforty days and forty nights, and I will¹ destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.”  ‡

8 Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth,

9 two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.