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Myles Coverdale Bible

Genesis 7:9

wente in vnto him to the Arcke by pares, a male and a female, as ye LORDE comaunded him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Ark;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Seven;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Flood, the;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Deluge;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Number;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deluge;   Hexateuch;   Time;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Noah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Flood;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Noah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Go;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
went by pairs to Noach into the teivah, male and female, as God commanded Noach.
King James Version
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
Lexham English Bible
two of each went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
New Century Version
came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.
New English Translation
male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.
Amplified Bible
they came [motivated by God] into the ark with Noah two by two, the male and the female, just as God had commanded Noah.
New American Standard Bible
they all went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
There came two and two vnto Noah into the Arke, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Legacy Standard Bible
by twos they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Complete Jewish Bible
couples, male and female, went in to Noach in the ark, as God had ordered Noach.
Darby Translation
there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Easy-to-Read Version
went into the boat with Noah. These animals went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God commanded.
English Standard Version
two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
George Lamsa Translation
There went in two and two with Noah into the ark, the males and the females, as God had commanded Noah.
Good News Translation
went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded.
Christian Standard Bible®
two of each, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, just as God had commanded him.
Literal Translation
two by two, as God had commanded Noah, they went into the ark, male and female.
American Standard Version
there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Bible in Basic English
In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
There came two & two vnto Noah vnto the arke, the male and the female, as God had commaunded Noah.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
King James Version (1611)
There went in two and two vnto Noah into the Arke, the male & the female, as God had commanded Noah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
pairs went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noe.
English Revised Version
there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Berean Standard Bible
came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
bi tweyne and bi tweyne, male and female entriden to Noe in to the schip, as the Lord comaundide to Noe.
Young's Literal Translation
two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.
Webster's Bible Translation
There went in two and two to Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
World English Bible
went by pairs to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
New King James Version
two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
New Living Translation
They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.
New Life Bible
went into the large boat with Noah. They went two by two, male and female, just as God had told Noah.
New Revised Standard
two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
two and two, went they in unto Noah, into the ark male and female,, - as God commanded Noah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.
Revised Standard Version
two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
Update Bible Version
there went in two and two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Contextual Overview

5 And Noe dyd all that the LORDE commaunded him. 6 Sixe hudreth yeare olde was he, whan the water floude came vpon earth. 7 And he wente in to the Arcke, with his sonnes, his wyfe, and his sonnes wyues, for the waters of the floude. 8 Of cleane beastes and of vncleane, of all fethered foules, & of all that crepeth vpon earth, 9 wente in vnto him to the Arcke by pares, a male and a female, as ye LORDE comaunded him. 10 And whan the seuen dayes were past, the water floude came vpon the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 7:16, Genesis 2:19, Isaiah 11:6-9, Isaiah 65:25, Jeremiah 8:7, Acts 10:11, Acts 10:12, Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:19 - two Genesis 6:22 - General Genesis 7:14 - They

Cross-References

Genesis 2:19
And whan God the LORDE had made of the earth all maner beastes of the felde, & all maner foules vnder the heaue, he brought them vnto man, to se what he wolde call the: For as ma called all maner of liuinge soules, so are their names.
Genesis 7:6
Sixe hudreth yeare olde was he, whan the water floude came vpon earth.
Genesis 7:9
wente in vnto him to the Arcke by pares, a male and a female, as ye LORDE comaunded him.
Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundreth yeare of Noes age, vpon the seuentene daye of the seconde moneth, that same daye were all ye fountaynes of the greate depe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened,
Genesis 7:12
and there came a rayne vpon ye earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.
Genesis 7:16
And these were the male & the female of all maner of flesh, and wente in, acordinge as God commauded him. And the LORDE shut (the dore) vpon him.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolff and the lambe shal fede together, and the lyon shal eate haye like the bullocke. But earth shalbe the serpetes meate. There shal no man hurte ner slaye another, in all my holy hill, saieth the LORDE.
Jeremiah 8:7
The Storke knoweth his apoynted tyme, the Turtledoue, ye Swalow and the Crane, cosidre the tyme of their trauayle: but my people will not knowe the tyme of the punyshment of the LORDE.
Galatians 3:28
Here is nether Iewe ner Greke: here is nether bode ner fre: here is nether man ner woman, for ye are all one in Christ Iesu.
Colossians 3:11
where there is no Greke, Iewe, circumcision, vncircumcision, Barbarous, Sithian, bode, fre: but Christ is all and in all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark,.... Of themselves, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, being impressed with an instinct from God so to do; or by the ministry of angels, as observed

:- there were two of a sort, and some think four:

the male and the female; and of some seven, or seven pairs, as before observed:

as God commanded Noah; which respects his own and his family's entrance and the creatures; both were commanded by God, and attended to by Noah, who was obedient in all things.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- The Ark Was Entered

2. טהור ṭâhôr “clean, fit for food or sacrifice.”

4. יקוּם yeqûm “standing thing; what grows up, whether animal or plant.” Compare קמה qāmâh “stalk, or standing corn.”

Genesis 7:1-4

Here is found the command to enter the ark. The general direction in the preceding chapter was given many years ago, before the ark was commenced. Now, when it is completed, a more specific command is issued. “For thee have I seen righteous before me.” Noah has accepted the mercy of God, is therefore set right in point of law, and walks aright in point of practice. The Lord recognizes this indication of an adopted and renewed son. “In this age” he and his were the solitary family so characterized.

Genesis 7:2-3

Of all clean cattle. - Here the distinction of clean and unclean animals meets us without any previous notice. How it became known to Noah we are not informed. From the former direction it appears that the animals were to enter by pairs. Now it is further arranged that there are to be seven pairs of the clean cattle and fowl, and only one pair of the unclean.

Genesis 7:4

Seven days after the issue of the command the rain is to commence, and continue for forty days and nights without ceasing. “Every standing thing” means every plant and animal on the land.

Genesis 7:5-9

The execution of the command is recorded and fully particularized with the additional circumstance of the age of Noah. “The son of six hundred years,” in his six hundredth year. “Went they unto Noah.” They seem to have come under the influence of a special instinct, so that Noah did not require to gather them. Seven days were employed in receiving them, and storing provisions for them.


 
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