Genesis 6:19

and of all that lives, of all flesh, you bring two from every [kind] into the Ark, to keep alive with you; they are male and female.

Literal Standard Version

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

18And I have established My covenant with you, and you have come into the Ark—you, and your sons, and your wife, and your son’s wives with you;

20From the bird after its kind, and from the livestock after its kind, [and] from every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every [kind] they come to you, to keep alive.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:8from the clean beast, and from the beast that [is] not clean, and from the bird, and of everything that is creeping on the ground,

Genesis 8:17and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.”

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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