reply to post by tempest501
Some people tell the story a little different. In Genesis everything is written twice. Once as a general summary and then as a more specific telling
in detail. Almost to the point where it looks like two different versions of the story got stuck together.
Back then they had a list of the animals that were considered clean, unclean, sacrificial, birds, and things like that. The lists weren't very long
and were very specific, and they are given in the Bible. The only animals on the list were the animals they actually used for like farming, medical
reasons, or religious reasons. Any other animal they didn't use could take a hike.
So when it says things like, Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male
and its mate and every kind of bird. Well what's clean and what's unclean and birds were a specific short list of animals.
When it says two of EVERY animal that's earlier in the book in the more general summary part where it doesn't go into detail as much.
It probably doesn't mean every animal in the world. Just the ones that were on their lists and the ones they cared about. Going over the lists some
people claim you would have only needed around 300 actual animals to satisfy the requirements or less.
Also, it can be confusing when reading the Bible sometimes when it says world, because sometimes world can mean the whole world, or sometimes the
"world" just means the holy land or the surrounding areas. Not necessarily the WHOLE world. Back then they considered just that the whole world.
What you probably get in Genesis is probably confusing because what's actually there is probably a mixing of what actually happened with the miracle
version that got passed down by word mixed along in our head with the way people tell the story now.
But it is God after all. Who knows, maybe he tweaked the 4th dimension just a little bit to make some extra space lol.
