Quotes about Pairs

And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

Then Jesus called the Twelve to Him and began to send them out two by two, giving them authority over unclean spirits.

Those that entered the ark in pairs were for the purpose of repopulating their kind after the Flood. This is why the female is paired with it. But the sacrificial clean animals were obviously not required to go in pairs as they had no mates and their function was not to keep their kinds alive after the Flood (Genesis 7:36). Sacrifice costs the sacrificer something. If not, it really isn't a sacrifice. King David later recognized this (2 Samuel 24:24

O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed. Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art…