Genesis 7:9
7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
- KJV
- There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
- WEB
- went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
- ASV
- there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
- DARBY
- there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
- BLB
- two [by] two they came to Noah, to the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
- ÅB
- gikk par for par inn til Noah i arken, han og hun, slik som Gud hadde befalt Noah.
- OTB
- kom til Noah og gikk inn i arken, hann og hunn, slik Gud hadde befalt Noah.
- B1930
- gikk par for par inn til Noah i arken, han og hun, således som Gud hadde befalt Noah.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 7:16
And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
Read in contextGenesis 2:19
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Read in contextColossians 3:11
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
Read in contextIsaiah 11:6–9
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
Read in contextIsaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
Read in contextJeremiah 8:7
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Read in contextGalatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Read in contextActs 10:11–12
He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
Read in context