Genesis 7:16

And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noah, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

15went in to Noah into the ark, pairs, male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

17And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:5And Noah did all things whatever the Lord God commanded him.

Deuteronomy 33:27And the rule of God shall protect thee, 1 And that under the strength of the everlasting arms; 1 And he shall cast forth the enemy from before thy face, 1 Saying, Perish. 1

Job 12:14If he should cast down, who will build up? 1 If he should shut up against men, who shall open? 1

Psalms 91:1A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath day. 1

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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