Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsof the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
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.
also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;
Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)