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What Does “Kind (species)” Mean in the Bible?

In the Bible, a class or species of animals.

Where it appears in the Bible

Genesis 6:20; Genesis 7:3

What the Bible says

Genesis 6:20

Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind; two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.

Genesis 7:3

But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “casta”

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