Genesis 7:16
A male and a female of every creature entered, as God had told Noah. Then the Lord shut the door behind him.
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In Context
15They all came into the ark with Noah in pairs—every living thing that breathes.
17The flood increased for forty days, lifting the ark so that it floated up from the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 7:5Noah did exactly what the Lord ordered him to do.
Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is your home, and he holds you up with his everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy ahead of you, and gives the order, “Destroy him!”
Job 12:14If he tears something down, nobody can rebuild it. If he imprisons someone, nobody can free them.
Psalms 91:1Those who live under the protection of the Most High are kept safe by the Almighty.
Matthew 25:10While they went to buy oil, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was locked shut.
John 10:27My sheep recognize my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:14-17
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of… Read the whole commentary →