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Genesis 7:9 KJV
Genesis · chapter 7 · verse 9
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.Genesis 7:9 · King James Version
Genesis 7:9 in context
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.
11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- commandedtsâvâhto constitute, enjoinH6680 →
- femalenᵉqêbâhfemaleH5347 →
- NoahNôachNoach, the patriarch of the floodH5146 →
- malezâkârproperly, rememberedH2145 →
- twoshᵉnayimtwoH8147 →
- arktêbâha boxH8392 →
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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