Genesis 6:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.”
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“Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Of the fowl after its kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every <FI>sort<Fi> they come in unto thee, to keep alive.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 6:20 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 1:20And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
- Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- Genesis 2:19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 7:8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
- John 5:40yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.
- Acts 10:11He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
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