Genesis 7:9

9 came to Noah to go into the ship in pairs (a male and female of each) as God had commanded Noah.

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 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ship to escape the floodwaters.
8 Clean and unclean animals, birds, and creatures that crawl on the ground
9 came to Noah to go into the ship in pairs (a male and female of each) as God had commanded Noah.
10 Seven days later the flood came on the earth.
11 On the seventeenth day of the second month of the six hundredth year of Noah's life, all the deep springs burst open. The sky opened,
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