Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
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Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
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Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
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Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Genesis 6:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 2:19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.
- Acts 10:11-12 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.
- Genesis 1:20-24 God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.” God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.
- Genesis 7:8-16 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah. After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened. It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights. In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship— they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah. Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.
- John 5:40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
- Genesis 1:28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of…
Gen 6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive.
Ver. 20. Two of every sort shall come unto thee.] "For they are all thy servants," saith David; {Psa 119:91} they wait upon thy word. This Noah might make good use of; and did, no doubt. See how sequacious these poor creatures are to God their centurion. If he bid them come, they come; if go, they go. And shall not I obey God, and follow his call, be there never so many lions in my way?
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain After their kind, i.e. according to their several kinds.…
After their kind, i.e. according to their several kinds. They
shall come unto thee of their own accord, by my impulse, or by the conduct of angels, as Gen 2:19.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thus did Noah,.... Or "and" or "therefore Noah made"…
Thus did Noah,.... Or "and" or "therefore Noah made" (o) the ark; and "all things", as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions:
according to all that God commanded him, so did he; he made the ark according to the pattern God gave him, he gathered together food for himself and family, and for all the creatures, and laid it up in the ark as God directed him; and when the time was come, he and they not only entered into it, but he took with him all the creatures he was ordered, as after related; in this we have an instance of his fear of God, of his faith in his word, and of his obedience to his will, see Heb 11:7 in all which he was a type of Christ, the builder of his church the ark was a figure of, and the pilot of it through the tempestuous sea of this world, and the provider of all good things for it, for the sustenance of it, and of those who are in it.
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(o) "et fecit", Pagninus, Montanus; "fecit itaque", Schmidt.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. Of the fowl, &c.] The order in which…
20. Of the fowl, &c.] The order in which the animals are here mentioned is deserving of notice; first the fowls, then the cattle, and finally the creeping things. What is the reason of this order? Probably the order of the account of the Creation in chap. 1 is followed, where the creation of the fowls is recorded in Gen_1:20-22, and of the cattle and creeping things in Gen_1:24. The same order is maintained in Gen_1:26.
kind] The same word as in Gen_1:12 (P).
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cattle] as in Gen_1:24, denoting domestic animals generally. The only group of animals mentioned in Gen_1:21; Gen_1:24, which is here omitted, is “the beast of the earth,” i.e. “the wild beast.” Is this intentional? The LXX adds, after “every creeping thing,” καὶ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν θηρίων = “and of every wild beast.”
creeping thing] See note on Gen_1:24. The exact phrase “everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind” is reproduced from Gen_1:25.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 after their kind
after their kind
"of each different kind"
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creeping thing of the ground
This refers to small animals that move on the ground .
two of every sort
This refers to two of every kind of bird and animal.
to keep them alive
"so you can keep them alive"
to you ... yourself ... you
These refer to Noah and are singular. (See: Forms of You)
food that is eaten
"food that people and animals eat"
So Noah did this. According to all that God commanded him, so he did
These two sentences mean the same thing. The second sentence explains the first and emphasizes that Noah obeyed God. These parallel sentences can be combined into one. AT: "So Noah did everything that God commanded him to do" (See: Parallelism)
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Noah
God
command
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