Genesis 7:3 - Exposition

Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female . I .e. of clean fowls, "which he leaves to be understood out of the foregoing verse" (Poole). The Samaritan, Syriac, and LXX . (not so Vulgate, Onkelos, Arabic) insert the word "clean unnecessarily, and also add," και Ì α ̓ πο Ì πα ì ντων τω ͂ ν πετεινω ͂ ν τω ͂ νν μη Ì καθαρω ͂ ν δυ ì ο δυ ì ο α ̓ ì ρσεν και Ì θη ͂ λυ , " manifestly to make the verse resemble the preceding. To keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.