Genesis 7:16

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

In Context

15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:5And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is a dwelling-place, and underneath are the everlasting arms; and He thrust out the enemy from before thee, and said: 'Destroy.'

Job 12:14Behold, He breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Psalms 91:1O thou that dwellest in the covert of the Most High, and abidest in the shadow of the Almighty;

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 →

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