Discovery BoxGenesis 7:2 
Context7:2 You must take with you seven 1 of every kind of clean animal, 2 the male and its mate, 3 two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,
Genesis 30:41
Context30:41 When the stronger females were in heat, 4 Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.
1 tn Or “seven pairs” (cf. NRSV).
2 sn For a study of the Levitical terminology of “clean” and “unclean,” see L. E. Toombs, IDB 1:643.
3 tn Heb “a male and his female” (also a second time at the end of this verse). The terms used here for male and female animals (אִישׁ, ’ish) and אִשָּׁה, ’ishah) normally refer to humans.
4 tn Heb “and at every breeding-heat of the flock.”
