went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
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went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
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There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
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there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
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Passages linked to Genesis 7:9 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.
- Genesis 7:16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.
- Isaiah 11:6-9 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
- Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 8:7 Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.
- 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.
- Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Colossians 3:11 where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain God compelled them to present themselves to Noah, as…
God compelled them to present themselves to Noah, as they did before to Adam, when he gave them names, Gen. 2:19.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 7:9 There went in two and two unto…
Gen 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
Ver. 9. There went in two and two.] Of their own accord, by divine instinct. Noah was not put to the pains of hunting after them, or driving them in. Only he seems to have been six days in receiving and disposing of them in their various cells, and fetching in food. When God bids us do this or that, never stand to cast perils; but set upon the work, yield "the obedience of faith," and fear nothing. The creatures came in to Noah, without his care or cost. He had no more to do, but to take them in, and place them. The prophet alludes hereto in Isa 11:6-7, - all bloodiness and rapine aside.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They went by the secret impulse of their great…
They went by the secret impulse of their great Creator and Governor, (see Gen 2:19; 6:20)
two and two; of which see above, Gen 4:20.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And it came to pass after seven days,.... Were…
And it came to pass after seven days,.... Were ended, or on the seventh day, after God had given the orders to Noah, to prepare for his going into the ark, with his family, and all the creatures:
that the waters of the flood were upon the earth: that is, they began to be upon the earth; for it continued to rain from hence forty days and forty nights; and still the waters continued to increase, and it was an hundred and fifty days before they began to ebb.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain There went in two and two--Doubtless they were led…
There went in two and two--Doubtless they were led by a divine impulse. The number would not be so large as at first sight one is apt to imagine. It has been calculated that there are not more than three hundred distinct species of beasts and birds, the immense varieties in regard to form, size, and color being traceable to the influence of climate and other circumstances.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. two and two] Apparently these words are introduced…
9. two and two] Apparently these words are introduced in order to harmonize the account in this verse with the command in Gen_6:19, and with the description in Gen_7:15. There is no mention of the admission of seven, or of seven pairs, of “clean” animals.
male and female] The same phrase as in Gen_7:3, Gen_6:19 : cf. Gen_1:27. It is not the expression of Gen_7:2, “the male and his female” (see note). The compiler is following P, who gives one pair of each kind.
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God] Elohim. So LXX ὁ Θεός; but the LXX text is not uniform. God. E and other MSS. κύριος; Lat. Dominus, and the Samaritan version, and the Targum, represent a text which read “Jehovah.” The work of the compiler, which is obvious in these verses, has left the reading in doubt.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain two of every sort
two of every sort
Cf. Gen 7:2. In addition to two animals, etc., commanded (Gen 6:19) to be preserved for future increase ("they shall be male and female"), the further command was given more than 100 years later to take of clean beasts, i.e. beasts acceptable for sacrifice, seven each. Exodus gives ten such beasts, or but seventy in all. Modern ships carry hundreds of live beasts, with their food, besides scores of human beings.
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