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Sep 13, 2023 · Either way, he was told to take more clean animals than unclean on the ark. Only the unclean animals came in pairs ( Genesis 6:19 ). Leviticus 11 defines the difference between clean and unclean animals, but Noah lived before the giving of the Law.
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In the account of the Flood, God commanded Noah to bring in seven pairs of "clean" animals and a pair of animals that are "not clean". Here we have a very early distinction of clean and unclean animals, something which was only(?) segregated in the giving of the Law.
Genesis 7:1-3 records an instruction God gave to Noah prior to the worldwide flood which began in verse 6. God told Noah to take two kinds of animals into the ark: clean animals and animals that were not clean.
In the previous verse, God instructed Noah and his family to enter the ark. They are to take with them the animals, and here additional creatures are added. Specifically, they must bring seven pairs (male and female) of the clean animals and one pair each of the unclean animals.
The distinction between clean and unclean animals appears first in Gen. vii. 2-3, 8, where it is said that Noah took into the ark seven and seven, male and female, of all kinds of clean beasts and fowls, and two and two, male and female, of all kinds of beasts and fowls that are not clean.
When the ark was built, and the period of grace (Genesis 6:3) had passed, Noah received instructions from Jehovah to enter the ark with his family, and with the animals, viz., seven of every kind of clean animals, and two of the unclean; and was informed that within seven days God would cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
