How many animals of each species did Noah take with him in the Ark?

Answer 1

There are some 1,300,000 known types of animals. The vast majority are small: 1,200,000 invertebrates, mostly insects.

There are some 8,250 reptiles, 10,000 birds, and 5,400 mammals.

Species which survive in water were not taken on the ark.

Answer 2

A: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 surprising find is that there are actually two stories of Noah's Ark in The Bible, written by two different authors and cleverly interleaved so that the result appears to be just one, rather complicated story. In the same way as there are two answers to this question, we can also find that one story has the flood subsiding in just forty days, while the other says that it lasted one year.

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.

Answer:

It's all a myth, science has proven beyond doubt that there was never a world-wide flood at any time within the last 20,000,000 years. Actually the whole book of Genesis is a provable myth.