Scripture · Old Testament
Genesis 6:20
Genesis 6:20 is verse 20 of Genesis chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
King James Version
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
World English Bible
Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
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Genesis 6:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
19 And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.
20 Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
21 You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
22 So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 1:20And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Genesis 1:21So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:22Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1:23And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
Genesis 1:24And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
Acts 10:11He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
Acts 10:12It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.
Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
Genesis 2:19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Genesis 7:8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
Genesis 7:9came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:10And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:12And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:13On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
Genesis 7:14they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
Genesis 7:15They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
Genesis 7:16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
John 5:40yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.