Genesis 8:16

16 come out of the arcke both thou and thy wyfe ad thy sonnes and thy sonnes wyues with the.

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 so by the .xxvij. daye of the seconde moneth the erth was drye.
15 And God spake vnto Noe saynge:
16 come out of the arcke both thou and thy wyfe ad thy sonnes and thy sonnes wyues with the.
17 And all the beastes that are with the whatsoever flesh it be both foule and catell and all maner wormes that crepe on the erth brynge out with the and let them moue growe ad multiplye vppon the erth.
18 And Noe came out ad his sonnes and his wyfe and his sonnes wyues with hym.
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