In Genesis, how many animals of each kind was Noah initially told to bring onto the Ark?

In Genesis, Noah was initially told to bring two of each kind of animal onto the Ark.

Genesis 6:19–20 instructs Noah to bring a male and female of every kind so that life can be preserved. This is the broad baseline instruction before the later passage gives additional numbers for certain animals.

Genesis 7:2–3 specifies seven pairs, or seven of each in some translations, for clean animals and birds, while unclean animals are taken as one pair. Because the passages use different classifications and translation traditions, summaries that say simply “two of every animal” can omit an important qualification.

The wording “kind” is a biblical category and should not be automatically equated with the modern biological concept of species. The account's emphasis is preservation and reproduction after the flood, not a zoological catalog using modern taxonomy.