Genesis 7:9
In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.
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10And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.
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Genesis 6:22And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.
Isaiah 11:6And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.
Jeremiah 8:7Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.
Galatians 3:28There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.
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 →