Genesis 6:19
New International Version
You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

New Living Translation
Bring a pair of every kind of animal—a male and a female—into the boat with you to keep them alive during the flood.

English Standard Version
And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

Berean Standard Bible
And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

New American Standard Bible
And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

NASB 1995
“And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

NASB 1977
“And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

Legacy Standard Bible
And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

Amplified Bible
And of every living thing [found on land], you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

Christian Standard Bible
You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

American Standard 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And two of everything that lives of all flesh, bring to the ark to save with you; they shall be male and female.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of each sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.

English Revised 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Bring two of every living creature into the ship in order to keep them alive with you. They must be male and female.

International Standard Version
You are to bring two of every living thing into the ark so they may remain alive with you. They are to be male and female.

JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Literal Standard Version
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.

Majority Standard Bible
And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

New American Bible
Of all living creatures you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, one male and one female, to keep them alive along with you.

NET Bible
You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

New Revised Standard Version
And of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

New Heart English Bible
Of every living thing of all flesh, you are to bring two of every sort into the vessel, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

Young's Literal Translation
and of all that liveth, of all flesh, two of every sort thou dost bring in unto the ark, to keep alive with thee; male and female are they.

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Context
Noah Builds the Ark
18But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark— male and female to keep them alive with you. 20Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.…

Cross References
Genesis 7:2
You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

Genesis 7:8
The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

Genesis 7:14
they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

Genesis 7:15
They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.


Treasury of Scripture

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall you bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

The cubit being nearly

Genesis 6:15
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.

two.

Genesis 7:2,3,8,9,15,16
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female…

Genesis 8:17
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

Psalm 36:6
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

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1. The wickedness of the world, which provoked God's wrath.
8. Noah finds grace.
9. His family line
14. The order, form, dimensions, and building of the ark.














(19-22) of every living thing of all flesh, two . . . --The vast size of the ark and the wide terms used of the animals to be collected into it, make it evident that Noah was to save not merely his domestic cattle, but many wild species of beasts, birds, and creeping things. But the terms are conditioned by the usual rules for the interpretation of the language of Holy Scripture, and by the internal necessities of the event itself. Thus the animals in the ark could not have been more in number than four men and four women could attend to Next, the terms exclude the carnivora (see also Note on Genesis 9:5). Not only was there no supply of animals taken on board to feed them, but half-tamed as they would have been by a year's sojourn in the ark, they would have remained in Noah's neighbourhood, and very soon have destroyed all the cattle which had been saved, especially as far and wide no other living creatures would have existed for their food. But if miracles are to be invoked to obviate these and similar difficulties. not only would it have been easier to save Noah and the denizens of the ark by one display of supernatural power, but the ark was the means provided by God for this purpose; and if He wrought thus far by human instrumentality, in accordance with the usual law of the Divine working on earth, to help out the human means employed by repeated acts of omnipotence would have been to proclaim it as insufficient. It does not follow from this that no special providence watched over and guided the ark; such providence is often exercised now, but it works through and in accordance with the ordinary laws by which God governs the world.

Verses 19-21. - And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort (literally, by twos, i.e. in pairs) shalt thou bring into - or cause to enter, i.e. receive them when they come (ver. 20) - the ark, to keep them alive - literally, to cause to live; ἴνα τρέφης (LXX.); in order to preserve alive (sc. the animals) - with thee; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind (literally, of the fowl after its kind), and of cattle after their kind (literally, of the cattle after its kind), of every creeping thing of the earth after its bind, two of every sort shall come unto thee. "Non hominis actu, sed Dei nutu" (Augustine). Perhaps through an instinctive presentment of the impending calamity (Lange, 'Speaker's Commentary'). And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee (collecting sufficient for a twelvemonth's sustenance); and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And
וּמִכָּל־ (ū·mik·kāl-)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

you are to bring
תָּבִ֥יא (tā·ḇî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

two
שְׁנַ֧יִם (šə·na·yim)
Number - md
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

of every
מִכֹּ֛ל (mik·kōl)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

living thing
הָ֠חַי (hā·ḥay)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

into
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the ark—
הַתֵּבָ֖ה (hat·tê·ḇāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8392: A box, chest

male
זָכָ֥ר (zā·ḵār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2145: Remembered, a male

and female—
וּנְקֵבָ֖ה (ū·nə·qê·ḇāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5347: A female

to keep [them] alive
לְהַחֲיֹ֣ת (lə·ha·ḥă·yōṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 2421: To live, to revive

with you.
אִתָּ֑ךְ (’it·tāḵ)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among


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