Genesis 7:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

7 And the Lord said to him: Go in thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

² Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.

³ But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.