Genesis 7:9

9 {two of each} went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, 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 And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

8 Of clean animals, and of animals which [are] not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,

9 {two of each} went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And it happened [that] after seven days the waters of the flood came over the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month--on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "two, two"