Genesis 7:9

9 came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just 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 He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat to escape the waters of the flood.

8 The clean animals, the unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls on the ground

9 came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.

10 Seven days later the flood started.

11 When Noah was six hundred years old, the flood started. On the seventeenth day of the second month of that year the underground springs split open, and the clouds in the sky poured out rain.