Genesis 7:14

14 They had every kind of wild and tame animal, every kind of animal that crawls on the earth, and 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 The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13 On that same day Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives went into the boat.

14 They had every kind of wild and tame animal, every kind of animal that crawls on the earth, and every kind of bird.

15 Every creature that had the breath of life came to Noah in the boat in groups of two.

16 One male and one female of every living thing came, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.