In Genesis's Noah's Ark story, seven pairs of clean animals were brought aboard.
Genesis 7:2 instructs Noah to take seven pairs of every clean animal, while taking one pair of every animal that was not clean. The next verse applies the same seven-pair instruction to clean birds, so the clean-animal provision is larger than the basic pair often remembered from children’s retellings.
Translations vary in how they phrase the Hebrew wording, including whether it means seven pairs or seven individual animals, with some versions expressing the count as “seven and seven.” In standard English trivia usage, “seven pairs” is the conventional answer to the question as worded.
The distinction matters because Genesis 8:20 later says Noah sacrificed some clean animals and clean birds. The additional clean animals would leave surviving breeding stock after that offering.