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"Each creature in pairs" - the meaning of a stable expression

Let us turn to our most important source, the Bible (the Old Testament), where the expression "every creature in pairs" is used for the first time (in another translation, "every one"). It is in the Old Testament that we can read the parable of the World Flood that swept the whole earth (Genesis, 7th chapter). Only Noah is saved, the righteous, and also his family. And, of course, animals and birds - each creature in pairs! Moreover, God informs Noah in advance that a great disaster is before him, and the thought prompts him to create an ark-ship for the preservation of all life on earth. Thus the Lord reveals his plan again to a man who lives righteously and who respects the laws of God. Everything was told to the smallest detail: up to the ship's drawings, its length, width, height, capacity.

The command and punishment of the Almighty

Also, God gives the righteous instruction: to take on board the ship a pair of "clean" and "unclean" animals in a ratio of seven to two - male and female, and also - seven pairs of heavenly birds "clean" and two - "unclean", so that Save the race and tribe for the whole earth. Then the Lord poured rain on the ground for forty days and nights in a row! It was a punishment to all existing humanity at the time for grave sins before God and to each other.

Each creature by pair

Noah did as he was told, collecting various kinds of animals and birds, taking them on board his ship, the benefit of the ark was quite capacious. After the flood, each couple was called upon to revive life in the manifestation in which we are now observing it. So it happened afterwards. And "each creature in pairs" - the meaning of this expression - has remained unchanged to this day!

How many animals did you fit in the Ark?

Although many atheists insist that so many animals (each creature in pairs) could not physically fit in the Ark, there are certainly several answers to this question. First, we should not discount the fact that such a work as the Bible should not be taken literally. In many respects this book is metaphorical in itself. And secondly, not so many famous "Moses" (in the same Old Testament) listed not so many genera of "pure" animals. In addition, the inhabitants of the ocean did not fall under these concepts, since they could survive on their own in the water conditions. Plants were also not taken into account. So to the question of how to fit each creature in the Ark in pairs, the Bible gives a positive, though not universally acceptable answer: it is possible!

And another, no less interesting question

And was the flood universal? In the Bible, the phrase "the whole earth" is sometimes interpreted as "the whole of the familiar (the Jews) world." Thus, having reported the famine at the time of Jacob, Moses claims that he reigned throughout the earth (but hardly he meant all five parts of the world)! Earth Jews often called the circle of those countries that they knew. The Flood occurs at the dawn of human history, when the places of human settlement were still small, not so vast. And for a complete "flooding of the world" it was not necessary to fill those areas in which the person was simply not yet! Accordingly, Noah in his Ark needed to take not all the diverse terrestrial fauna, but only those inhabitants who lived next to a man who "could be collected in a week" (Genesis, 7).

So Deacon A. Kuraev, for example, in the book "School theology" says that the miracle consists not so much in the vastness and inclusiveness of the flood. The main thing is that the person was warned by the Lord, and as a result, not the most cunning, the bravest, the strongest, but the most righteous, escaped.

And for fun, and seriously

And yet the expression "every creature in a pair" today is determined by the motley, mixed composition of the human group, society, crowds. This phraseology, of course, is directly related to the same Noah's Ark, where a lot of incompatible, at first glance, animals in one place were collected. Expression is used to describe the heterogeneity of persons differing in their views, tastes, contradictory and collected in one particular place. There are also in free speech and all sorts of funny "alterations" and re-phrases of this phrase. For example, "in every pair of a creature" or "every creature in a hare". Which only confirms the universal popularity of this ancient, seemingly expressive, but as carefully tested by time!

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