Genesis 7:9

9 two of each, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, just as God 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 with him entered the ark to escape the floodwaters.

8 From the clean and unclean animals, from the birds and everything crawling on the ground,

9 two of each, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, just as God commanded Noah.

10 After seven days, the floodwaters arrived on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day—on that day all the springs of the deep sea erupted, and the windows in the skies opened.