DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Twice. Genesis 7:7–9 walks Noah, his family, and the animals aboard; 7:13–16 narrates the same boarding again, complete, with its own wording. It is one of several details the chapter gives twice.
Why it’s interesting
The doubled boarding is one of the clearest of the flood story's paired details. Scholars have long read the narrative as two older tellings braided together — and here the braid sits in a single chapter.
Scholarly consensus
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