Genesis 7:14

14 They and every kind of animal—every kind of livestock, every kind that crawls on the ground, every kind of bird—

Genesis 7:14 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 7:14

They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle
after their kind
They, Noah and his family, went into the ark; as did all sorts of beasts and cattle, reckoned one hundred and thirty sorts, by some one hundred and fifty, including serpents: and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his
kind;
supposed to be scarce thirty sorts; not one sort of creature was left out, though ever so small, and despicable: every fowl after his kind;
Bishop Wilkins has divided them into nine sorts, and reckons them up to be one hundred and ninety five in the whole; every [bird of] every sort,
or "bird of every wing" ^F11, let their wings be what they will; some, as Ainsworth observes, are winged with feathers, others with skin, as bats.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (Pnk lk rwpu lk) "omnes aves cujuscunque alae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt.

Genesis 7:14 In-Context

12 It rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 That same day Noah, with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, and his sons' three wives, went into the ark.

14 They and every kind of animal—every kind of livestock, every kind that crawls on the ground, every kind of bird—

15 they came to Noah and entered the ark, two of every creature that breathes.

16 Male and female of every creature went in, just as God had commanded him. Then the LORD closed the door behind them.

Footnotes

• [a]. LXX; MT every bird, every winged thing