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 7:8
Context7:8 Pairs 4 of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
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 “two two” meaning “in twos.”
