On Thursday evenings my best friend and I have dinner and bible study. We attempt to go thru a book or specific study, right now we are trying to go thru the 12 disciples in depth study.
We have found that we may start on topic, but then ver off on something else that the Lord had showed us in his Scriptures. For example, we both recently have heard people speak about the ark and the animals. Christine recently was up at the Ark Encounter and I heard someone say that the animals were brought into the ark by "7's". I was like wait, what? I've always heard 2 by 2. This is just a great example of why we need to study scriptures for ourselves. Researched this and found that Genesis 6:19 and Genesis 7:2, 3 show the TRUTH.
Genesis 6:19 "And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female".
Genesis 7:2, 3 "You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two of each animals that are unclean, a male and his female; also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of the earth".
This information found from blueletterbible.org is where the following information came from according to Don Stewart.
Clean And Unclean
This often-brought up question has a simple explanation. The seven of each animal were clean animals-to be used for sacrifice as well as for food. The remainder of the animals that went to the ark included a male and a female. This is explained in Genesis 7.
Two of each animal entered the ark along with seven of each clean animal. The clean animals entered for purpose of sacrifice and for food for Noah and his family.
That being said it makes total sense that it was actually more than just "2" of each kind of animal. Noah didn't know how long he would be in the ark. Noah, his family and the animals would need to have some form of food to eat while in the ark.
How many times do we just take what someone says without questioning it ourselves and researching to see what the Bible says, and not what we believe from someone else.
