Genesis 6:19

And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

In Context

18But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

20Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

Genesis 8:17Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:14-22

Prediction of the Deluge. ( b. c. 2448.) 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window… Read the whole commentary →

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