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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 7:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, etc.] Seven couple of the one, and a couple of the other: and of fowls, clean and unclean, also a like number: and of everything that creepeth upon the earth; and upon that only, not in the water, for these had no need of the ark, they could live in the waters.
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