DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Genesis 6:19-20 says two of every kind. Genesis 7:2-3 says seven pairs of every clean animal (and one pair of the unclean). Both verses are in your Bible, a page apart.
Why it’s interesting
The flood narrative reads smoothly, but the animal counts shift between chapters. Scholars have long noted the story braids together more than one older telling; here you can see the seam without anyone pointing it out.
Scholarly consensus
You can know the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.