Genesis 8:18

18 Noach went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

Genesis 8:18 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 8:18

And Noah went forth
Being obedient to the divine command, and no doubt with great pleasure in his countenance, and with a heart full of thankfulness for so great a deliverance;

and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
in all eight persons, and no more were saved in the ark, as Peter observes, ( 1 Peter 3:20 ) and the Arabic writers say ^F1, Noah and his sons built a city near the place where they came out of the ark, and called it Themanin, giving this as a reason of the name, we are eight, that is, who have escaped; so Berosus says ^F2, that the earth being dried of the waters, there were then only eight men in Armenia, from whence all mankind sprung.

---

FOOTNOTES:

F1 Elmacleus, p. 12. Patricides, p. 10. apud Hottinger. Smegma Oriental. l. 1. c. 8. p. 282.
F2 Hist. l. 2. fol. 11. 1.

Genesis 8:18 In-Context

16 "Go forth from the teivah, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the eretz; that they may breed abundantly in the eretz, and be fruitful, and multiply on the eretz."

18 Noach went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the eretz, after their families, went forth out of the teivah.

20 Noach built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.