Gen 7:8-9 | NET2full | STEP | Pairs of clean animals , of unclean animals , of birds , and of everything that creeps along the ground ,

‏ Genesis 7:8-9

8 Pairs ^{▼▼tn Heb “two two” meaning “in twos.”} of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground, 9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, ^{▼▼tn The Hebrew text of vv. 8-9a reads, “From the clean animal[s] and from the animal[s] which are not clean and from the bird[s] and everything that creeps on the ground, two two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female.”} just as God had commanded him. ^{▼▼tn Heb “Noah”; the pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.}