Holy Scripture
Genesis 7:3
A church father on this verse
“Now let us consider by what means Noah commanded the clean animals to enter the ark, seven and seven, male and female (Gen. VII, 2): but of the unclean animals, two and two, so that the seed may be nourished in all the earth. And as I think, he asserts that the clean week begins; because the world and the sacred seven…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3And 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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1And the Lord God said to Noah, Enter thou and all thy family into the ark, for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2And of the clean cattle take in to thee sevens, male and female, and of the unclean cattle pairs male and female.
— Genesis 7:3 —
4For yet seven days having passed I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.
5And Noah did all things whatever the Lord God commanded him.