Genesis 6:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.

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  • Gen 1:20-24 : 20 And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven. 21 And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth. 23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.
  • Gen 1:28 : 28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
  • Gen 2:19 : 19 And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.
  • Gen 7:8-9 : 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth, 9 In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said. 10 And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open; 12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark; 14 And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird. 15 They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life. 16 Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.
  • John 5:40 : 40 And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.
  • Acts 10:11-12 : 11 And he saw the heavens opening, and a vessel coming down, like a great cloth let down on the earth, 12 In which were all sorts of beasts and birds.

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  • Gen 6:17-19
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    17 For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

    18 But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

    19 And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.

  • Gen 7:14-16
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    14 And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

    15 They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

    16 Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

  • Gen 8:16-19
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    16 Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.

    17 Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

    18 And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives;

    19 And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.

  • Gen 7:1-3
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    1 And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

    2 Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;

    3 And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

  • Gen 9:10
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    10 And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.

  • Gen 6:21
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    21 And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.

  • Gen 7:7-9
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    7 And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

    8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

    9 In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.

  • Gen 1:24-25
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    24 And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

    25 And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 1:20-22
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    20 And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

    21 And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.

    22 And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

  • Gen 7:21-23
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    21 And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

    22 Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

    23 Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

  • Gen 2:19
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    19 And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

  • Lev 11:15
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    15 Every raven, and birds of that sort;

  • Gen 9:2
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    2 And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.

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    30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

  • Deut 14:14
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    14 Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

  • Ps 148:10
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    10 Beasts and all cattle; insects and winged birds:

  • Lev 11:46
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    46 This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth:

  • Acts 10:12
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    12 In which were all sorts of beasts and birds.

  • Gen 6:14
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    14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.

  • Deut 4:17
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    17 Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,

  • Deut 14:6
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    6 Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.

  • Lev 20:25
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    25 So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.