Genesis 7:3

In 11 translations

BSB

and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

KJV

Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.by sevens: Heb. seven seven

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

also, seven pairs from [each] bird of the heavens, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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.

GNV

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

JPS

of the fowl also of the air, seven and seven, male and female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

LXXE

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.

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WLC

גַּ֣ם מֵע֧וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֛יִם שִׁבְעָ֥ה שִׁבְעָ֖ה זָכָ֣ר וּנְקֵבָ֑ה לְחַיּ֥וֹת זֶ֖רַע עַל־פְּנֵ֥י כָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν πετεινῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τῶν καθαρῶν ἑπτὰ ἑπτὰ ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ, καὶ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν πετεινῶν τῶν μὴ καθαρῶν δύο δύο ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ, διαθρέψαι σπέρμα ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν.

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