DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Seven pairs of every clean animal — plus one pair of the unclean, and seven pairs of the birds (Genesis 7:2–3). A page earlier, Genesis 6:19 gives the two-of-every-kind instruction everyone remembers.
Why it’s interesting
The extra clean animals matter later: the first thing Noah does on dry land is offer "of every clean animal" on an altar (Genesis 8:20). Both counts sit in the text, a page apart.
Scholarly consensus
You can know the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.