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Genesis 7:15

in Genesis 7

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

KJV

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

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This verse in Genesis 7

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

And they went in, etc. - It was physically impossible for Noah to have collected such a vast number of tame and ferocious animals, nor could they have been retained in their wards by mere natural means. How then were they brought from various distances to the ark and preserved there? Only by the power of God. He who first miraculously brought them to Adam that he might give them their names, now brings them to Noah that he may preserve their lives.

This site's exposition

On that very day Noah entered the ark

on Genesis 7:13-16

Eight people go in, named one at a time: Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives. Peter counts the same eight, saved through water, and reads the ark as a picture of baptism at 1 Peter 3:20 and 21. Every nation in the table of Genesis 10 comes out of Shem, Ham and Japheth. Then the LORD shut him in.

This site's exposition

two by two of every creature

The promise of 6:20 is kept. The pairs are those with the breath of life, the same kind of creature that perishes outside at verse 22. Adam Clarke held that only the power of God could bring and keep them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And they went in unto Noah into the ark,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

CHRIST always taught by parables. Hence the popularity and the power of His teaching. The masses never were and perhaps, never will be, able to receive instruction in any other way than by parabolic illustrations. He who would be a successful minister must open his mouth in parables. He who would win the hearts of the multitude must closely imitate his Master and preach in parables which all men can understand. I believe there are few living men who are able to devise a parable. Those who do possess this rare ability are very scarce, indeed. Nor do I profess to belong to the honorable confraternity. I have sometimes endeavored to fashion a parable and though I found it easy, at times, to manufacture a figure, yet a parable I can by no means make. I am happy to say it is not required of me to do so, for God's Word, if it is rightly used, is suggestive of a thousand parables! And I have no reason to fear that I shall be short of subjects for preaching when I am able to find such parables as I do in God's Word. I shall preach to you this evening a parable. It shall be the parable of the ark. While I do so, you must understand that the ark was a real thing—that it was really made to float upon the waters and carry in it Noah and his family and "two and two of all flesh." This is a fact, not a myth. But I shall take this real fact and use it as a parable. Making the ark represent salvation, I shall preach to all who are within sound of my voice the parable of the ark. The ark, which saved from the floods of water, is a beautiful picture of Jesus Christ as the means of salvation, by whom multitudes of all flesh are preserved and saved from perishing in the floods of eternal Perdition! I. First, then, in working out this parable I shall remark that THERE IS BUT ONE MEANS OF SALVATION.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּבֹ֥אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • נֹ֖חַNoah

    noachH5146 →46 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַתֵּבָ֑הthe ark

    hatevahH8392 →28 times

  • שְׁנַ֤יִםtwo

    shenayimH8147 →768 times

  • שְׁנַ֙יִם֙two

    shenayimH8147 →768 times

  • מִכָּל־of all

    mikolH3605 →5413 times

  • הַבָּשָׂ֔ר<the> flesh

    habasarH1320 →270 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • בּ֖וֹ[was] in <the> it

    bo

  • ר֥וּחַ[the] breath of

    ruachH7307 →378 times

  • חַיִּֽים׃life

    chaiyimH2416 →498 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 11:6

    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.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 65:25

      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…

    • Hosea 2:18

      On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish…

    • Ezekiel 34:25

      I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.

    • Revelation 5:9–10

      And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and…

    • Galatians 3:26–27

      You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Great Flood — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Great Flood — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Genesis: the study guide →Read Genesis 7 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3042: “The Parable of the Ark” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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