How many of each animal ambled into noah' s ark according to the biblical account?

Answer 1

2 of every unclean (according to Jewish law) and 7 of every clean animal.

Genesis 7:2 states: "Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate"

Answer 2

This is one of the most debated question regarding the great flood.

Some verses wrote two, "Of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark:. Genesis 6;19. "Of clean beast and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowl ... there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God commanded Noah." Genesis 7;8,9,15

Anther verse wrote seven, Of every clean beast thou shalt take thee by sevens, the male and his female. Genesis 7;2

Answer 3

In Genesis 6:19-20, Noah is told to take two of every animal onto the Ark, clean or unclean, but in Genesis 7:1 he is told to take two of every unclean animal, but seven of every clean animal. The reason for this is that there are actually two stories of Noah's Ark in Genesis 6-8, written by two different authors and cleverly interleaved so that the result appears to be just one, rather complicated story. The Redactor who edited the final version of Genesis no doubt felt that he would face opposition if he removed either one of the stories, so skilfully interleaved them so that the proponents of either story would find familiar text, yet the existence of two stories is not apparent. So, for example We do not know the names of the two different authors of the biblical stories of Noah, and they are now called the Priestly Source and the Yahwist:

The Flood verses attributed to the Priestly author are: Genesis 6:9-22, 7:6, 7:8-9, 7:11, 7:13-16a, 7:18-21, 7:24, 8:1-2a, 8:3b-5, 8:7, 8:13a, 8:14-19, 9:1-17.
The verses attributed to the Yahwist are: Genesis 6:5-8, 7:1-5, 7:7, 7:10, 7:12, 7:16b-17, 7:22-23, 8:2b-3a, 8:6, 8:8-12, 8:13b, 8:20-22.

Just as the two different authors could not completely agree on certain other aspects of their stories, they gave us different numbers of each type of animal that Noah is said to have taken on the ark.

Answer 4

One male and one female of those types that are not Kosher. Of the Kosher animals, there were seven males and seven females.

Answer 5

Another answer from our community:

Noah took 2 animals of each type! One of each sex, male and female!

Answer 6

There were two of each but Genesis 7 says there were 7.

Answer 7

The Bible says a pair of each animal, came to Noah he did not have to bring them.

Answer 8

2 Seven. Genesis 7:2

Answer 9

1

Answer 10

Two of each