Genesis 7:9 “came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had…”

Genesis 7:9

came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

World English Bible

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

American Standard Version

there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

Geneva Bible 1599

There came two and two vnto Noah into the Arke, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Darby Translation

there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Young's Literal Translation

two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.

Bible in Basic English

In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.

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Cross references

“There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.”

Genesis 7:16 Genesis 2:19 Isaiah 11:6–9 Isaiah 65:25 Jeremiah 8:7 Galatians 3:28

Genesis 7:16 · BSB

And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

Genesis 2:19 · BSB

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was…

Isaiah 11:6–9 · BSB

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.

Isaiah 65:25 · BSB

The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:7 · BSB

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

Galatians 3:28 · BSB

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

10And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

Read Genesis 7