Genesis 7:3

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.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

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;

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.

In context

2You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

4For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

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