Genesis 7:9
there went in two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 6:22Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.
Isaiah 11:6And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
Jeremiah 8:7Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD.
Galatians 3:28There is no Jew nor Greek, there is no bondman nor freeman, there is no male and female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:6-11
The Deluge. ( b. c. 2349.) 5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.… Read the whole commentary →