Genesis 7:3

3 Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.

Genesis 7:3 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 7:3

Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and his
female
That is, of such as were clean; seven couple of these were to be brought into the ark, for the like use as of the clean beasts, and those under the law; and so at this time, and here meant were turtledoves, and young pigeons that were for sacrifice; and the rest were for food: and the design of bringing both into the ark was, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth;
that the species of creatures might be continued, both of beasts and birds, clean and unclean.

Genesis 7:3 In-Context

1 The Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.

2 Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.

3 Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.

4 Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made."

5 And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.