How many cows were on Noahs Ark?

Question

The story of Noah's Ark is in the book of Genesis and it describes how many animals of each type were brought on board. How many female cows were brought on board. This is not as tricky as it sounds, you just have to look up the story of Noah in Genesis 5 and 6 to determine how many female cows were on board. If you want to get really fancy you can explain how many were actually around a few days after the flood and why the two numbers are different. Here is a hint, it isn't "one" or "two".

Answer 1

It's seven, there is no such thing as a male cow (to the answer above).

God instructed Noah to get one male and one female of each unclean animal (any that are not fit to eat), and seven male and seven female from each clean animal. If they had not, what would they have eaten on the 40 day/night voyage?!

Answer 2

Of all clean animals, 7 were brought on board. Of all unclean animals, 2 were brought on board. We are told that of the 2 unclean animals, 1 was male and 1 was female. We are not generally told what the divide was between the 7 clean animals. However, genetically speaking, the optimal split would have been 5 males and 2 females. This would have allowed maximal genetic diversity in the early population.

However, the 50/500 rule would have nipped even this in the bud really quick. The 50/500 rule states that in order to survive 500 generations without significant genetic flaws arising, you need 50 breeding pairs. 5 males and 2 females would have reflected only 10 breeding pairs. You would expect the collapse of the bovine genetics in well under 500 generations under such circumstances. Considering a bovine generation is much less than a human generation, we would have long since passed this point and cattle would no longer exist or would be dying off, regardless of farming techniques.

Genetically, the flood story is entirely unviable, not even raising the question of evolution. Even if all species stayed exactly the same as they were on the boat and never changed, the whole thing would already have collapsed.

Answer 3

2

Answer 4

Genesis 6:20 mentions fowls, cattle and creeping things were taken in by twos. Genesis 7 mentions clean beasts were taken in by sevens, the male and his female, and beasts that were not clean were taken in by twos, the male and his female.

So, I guess the answer to your question is, there was only one cow, the female; unless you're counting the cows as clean beasts, then there would be seven of them.

Answer 5

Assuming for the sake of argument that the story of Noah's Ark is true, there would be one cow on the Ark. The other bovine would have been a bull.

Answer 6

I think you mean cattle. Cows are female cattle.

Genesis 7:2 - Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate...

I believe cattle are clean so there would be seven bulls and seven cows.

Answer 7

TWO of EACH

1 Male 1 Female

Answer 8

Some of the cows were expecting. After how many weeks should we consider that the fetus had souls and count them ? 14 like the bible says for humans ?

Answer 9

How many female cows? Isn't that kind of like asking how many male bulls?
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Answer 10

Either six, or seven if one was pregnant and there was no bull.
Could have been 1 bull and 6 female calves. [all buffalo, bison, domesticated cows, gnus, etc. would be represented in the cow kind.