Genesis 7:9

7:9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, ¹  just as God had commanded him. ² 

Genesis 29:24

29:24 (Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.) ³ 

Genesis 29:29

29:29 (Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.) ⁴ 

Genesis 32:14

32:14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Genesis 33:6

33:6 The female servants came forward with their children and bowed down. ⁵ 

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¹ tn The Hebrew text of vv. 8-9a reads, “From the clean animal[s] and from the animal[s] which are not clean and from the bird[s] and everything that creeps on the ground, two two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female.”

² tn Heb “Noah”; the pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “and Laban gave to her Zilpah his female servant, to Leah his daughter [for] a servant.” This clause gives information parenthetical to the narrative.

⁴ tn Heb “and Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his female servant, for her for a servant.”

⁵ tn Heb “and the female servants drew near, they and their children and they bowed down.”