Text -- Genesis 7:3 (NET)

7:3 and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 7:3

¹ tn Or “seven pairs” (cf. NRSV).

² tn Here (and in v. 9) the Hebrew text uses the normal generic terms for “male and female” (זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה, zakhar unÿqevah).

³ tn Heb “to keep alive offspring.”