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## Genesis 7:2-3 in Context (Verses 1–6 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/genesis/7/1) And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/genesis/7/2) Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that *are* not clean by two, the male and his female.*
 
 [3 ](/kjv/genesis/7/3) Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.*
 
 [4 ](/kjv/genesis/7/4) For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.*
 
 [5 ](/kjv/genesis/7/5) And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/genesis/7/6) And Noah *was* six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
 
[Genesis 6](/kjv/genesis/6) [Genesis 8](/kjv/genesis/8)

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