What Are The Clean Amimals In The Ark

Clean and Unclean Animals on the Ark

Genesis 7:two

Y'all shall take with yous 7 each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female.

Noah was allowable to take seven pairs (a pair beingness a male and a female) of clean animals and one pair of unclean animals. This was to preserve the life of the dissimilar kinds of animals that God had created (Genesis seven:3). God performed a miracle by leading the animals to orderly get together and enter the ark in pairs (verse nine).

This verse is very important because information technology demonstrates that the knowledge of the laws of clean and unclean meats existed long before they were enumerated by Moses in Leviticus eleven and Deuteronomy 14. These were universal laws that were designed to govern what was proper meat for human consumption.

Here'due south a sample of what Noah would have taken on the ark:

7 male/female pairs of sheep (xiv total).
7 male person/female person pairs of deer (fourteen total).
vii male/female pairs of pigeons (14 total).
i male/female pair of swine (2 total).
1 male/female person pair of dogs (2 total).
1 male/female pair of porcupines (2 total).

There are a number of reasons Noah was instructed to take clean animals at a rate of seven times that of unclean animals. First, Noah and his family would eat some of the meat of the clean animals during their time on the ark. Second, Noah would perform sacrifices afterward the Flood—which could simply be offered with make clean animals (Genesis viii:20).

To larn more almost God's laws of make clean and unclean meats, read our commodity "Clean and Unclean Animals: Does God Intendance What Meats Nosotros Swallow?"

Tomorrow on the Daily Bible Verse Blog: "Creature Kinds on the Ark."

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