Genesis 6:20

birds, animals and creeping things, so that they might be kept alive.

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In The King James Version

Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

In Context

19and take with you into the ark two of every kind living thing, a male and a female,

21Take and store food for them and you.”

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Cross References

Genesis 1:20Then God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth in the open dome of the sky.”

Genesis 2:19So out of the ground the Lord God formed all the wild beasts and birds, and made them come to the human to see what he would call them. Whatever he called each living creature, that was its name.

John 5:40you refuse to come to me to have life.

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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