If the picture were true....the lions would be extinct....because if you pushed two male lions (with the hair)...onto the ark.....they wouldn't reproduce.
Not that I really care....it's just a artist rendition, and probably used in several hundred publications.
For the record, male and female lions are among the few animals on Earth.....that you can note from several hundred yards away on their sex.
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Genesis 7:2, NASB: You shall take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and his female;
God instructed Noah and his family to enter the ark. They are to take with them the animals, and here additional creatures are added. Specifically, they must bring seven pairs (male and female) of the clean animals and one pair each of the unclean animals. The first readers of Genesis would likely have understood what was meant by clean and unclean animals, but this is the first hint in Scripture that God had designated some kinds of animals as clean and others as unclean.
Why seven pairs of the clean animals? After the flood, Noah will offer animal sacrifices to God (Genesis 8:20). Only clean animals are acceptable as a sacrifice, and Noah will need more than just one pair of those if each kind of animal is to survive as a species.
We know from Genesis 6:20 that the animals Noah was to take on the ark would have come to him; he didn't have to go search for, select, and bring them back to the ark. However, Noah and his family were responsible to take them in with them.
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