Beasts. — Heb., of the clean cattle and of the cattle that was not clean. In the Chaldean Genesis, Xisuthrus takes also wild animals, seeds of all kinds of plants, gold and silver, male and female slaves, the “sons of the best,” and the “sons of the people” (pp. 280-283). There it is a whole tribe, with their chief, who are saved — here one family only.
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Genesis 7:8
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,