Genesis 7:9

9 two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him.

Genesis 7:9 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 7:9

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 (See Gill on Genesis 6:20) 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.

Genesis 7:9 In-Context

7 So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the waters of the deluge.

8 From the clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and every creature that crawls on the ground,

9 two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him.

10 Seven days later the waters of the deluge came on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,