Genesis 8:16

16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

Genesis 8:16 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
English Standard Version (ESV)
16 "Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
New Living Translation (NLT)
16 “Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.
The Message Bible (MSG)
16 "Leave the ship, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.
American Standard Version (ASV)
16 Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
16 "Come out of the ship with your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
16 "Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
16 "Come out of the ark. Bring your wife and your sons and their wives with you.

Genesis 8:16 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 8:16

Go forth of the ark
Though the earth was dry and fit to be inhabited, yet be would not go out without orders, as he had to go in; which he waited for before he would, and now he has them:

thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives, with thee:
the Jewish writers F26 observe, that the manner of Noah and his family coming out of the ark is different from that of their going into it: when they went into it then went the men by themselves, and the women by themselves, and so continued apart in the ark, the use of the marriage bed being forbidden them, being a time of distress; but now when they came out they are coupled together, signifying that they were now free to cohabit together.


FOOTNOTES:

F26 Pirke Eliezer, c. 23. Jarchi in loc.

Genesis 8:16 In-Context

14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
15 Then God said to Noah,
16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

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