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Genesis 7:8 KJV
Genesis · chapter 7 · verse 8
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,Genesis 7:8 · King James Version
Genesis 7:8 in context
6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- creepethrâmasproperly, to glide swiftlyH7430 →
- beastsbᵉhêmâhproperly, a dumb beastH929 →
- cleanṭâhôwrpureH2889 →
- fowlsʻôwpha bird , often collectivelyH5775 →
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Here is Noah's ready obedience to the commands that God gave him. Observe, 1. He went into the ark, upon notice that the flood would come after seven days, though probably as yet there appeared no visible sign of its approach, no cloud arising that threatened it, nothing done towards it, but all continued serene and…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-10