Holy Scripture
Genesis 7:9
A church father on this verse
“Christ was also represented in Noah, and the world, in that ark. For why were all living creatures shut up in that ark except to signify all the nations? For God did not lack the capability of creating anew every species of living things. For when no creatures were in existence, did he not say, "Let the earth bring fo…”
Source: Septuagint
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9pairs went in to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
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7And then went in Noah and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood.
8And of clean flying creatures and of unclean flying creatures, and of clean cattle and of unclean cattle, and of all things that creep upon the earth,
— Genesis 7:9 —
10And it came to pass after the seven days that the water of the flood came upon the earth.
11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.