And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
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Gill's Exposition
And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten,.... By man and beast; of which see Gen 1:29.
and thou shall gather it to thee; to lay up in the ark:
and it shall be for food for thee, and for…
Adam Clarke
To keep them alive - God might have destroyed all the animal creation, and created others to occupy the new world, but he chose rather to preserve those already created. The Creator and Preserver of…
Here it appears indeed that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. God's favour to him was plainly intimated in what he said of him, Gen 6:8-10, where his name is mentioned five times in five…
Cambridge Bible
two of every sort Observe that here one pair of every kind of living creature is to be brought into the ark.
"Male and female," as in Gen 1:27 (P). A different phrase is used in Gen 7:2 (J), where see…
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