Genesis 8:16
in Genesis 8“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
KJV
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
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This verse in Genesis 8
Commentary
7 notes on this verseWhen Noah was ordered to enter the ark and was entrusted with the safeguarding of the seed of the earth, he was given this command, which reads, "Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you." He had separated them from their wives, so that with the help of chastity they might escape the deep and that worldwide destruction. However, after the cessation of the flood, the command was "Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you."
This site's exposition
Then God said to Noah
on Genesis 8:15-16
God had shut the door at 7:16, and God is the one who opens the matter now, by speaking. Noah had seen dry ground back at verse 13 and had stayed where he was. He waits for the word. God tells him to come out with his wife, his sons and their wives, the same eight who went in.
This site's exposition
Come out of the ark
God's command pairs each man with his wife, where 7:13 lists the men entering ahead of the women. John Damascene read the change as the end of a season of separation kept in the ark. Ephrem the Syrian made the same point at verse 17.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Then all creation was cleansed as if of some blemish, removing all defilement caused in it by human wickedness. Its countenance was made resplendent; God then finally commanded the just man to disembark from the ark, freeing him from that awful prison with these words, "Then the Lord God said to Noah, 'Disembark, you and your sons, your wife and your sons' wives with you, as well as all flesh, from birds to cattle; take off with you every reptile that crawls upon the earth, and increase and multiply on the earth.' " Notice God's goodness, how in everything he encourages the good man. After ordering him to disembark from the ark along with his sons, his wife, his sons' wives and all the wild animals, then lest great discouragement should gradually overtake him by this further development and he become anxious at the thought that he would be on his own, dwelling alone in such a vast expanse of earth, with no one else existing, God first said, "Disembark from the ark, and take off everything with you," and then added, "Increase and multiply, and gain dominion over the earth." See how once again this good man receives that former blessing that Adam had received before the fall. The same words were as man heard when he was created: God blessed them in the words "increase and multiply, and gain dominion over the earth." So too this man now hears the words "increase and multiply on the earth." In other words, just as the former man became the beginning and root of all creatures before the deluge, so too this just man becomes a kind of leaven, beginning and root of everything after the deluge. From this point on, what is comprised in the makeup of human beings takes its beginning, and the whole of creation recovers its proper order, both the soil reawakening to productivity as well as everything else that had been created for the service of human beings.
The Medieval Church1 voice
God said to Noah, "Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, your sons and your sons' wives with you; bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you of all flesh, both birds and animals, and every creeping thing that …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Go forth of the ark,....
Those that steadily adhere to God's word as their rule, and are guided by his grace as their principle, and take hints from his providence to assist them in their application of general directions to particular cases, may in faith see him guiding their motions in their march through this wilderness.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| צֵ֖א | tze' | go out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| מִן־ | min- | from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַתֵּבָ֑ה | hatevah | the ark | H8392 → | 28 times |
| אַתָּ֕ה | ʾatah | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| וְאִשְׁתְּךָ֛ | veishtekha | and wife your | H802 → | 781 times |
| וּבָנֶ֥יךָ | uvaneikha | and sons your | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| וּנְשֵֽׁי־ | uneshei- | and [the] wives of | H802 → | 781 times |
| בָנֶ֖יךָ | vaneikha | sons your | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אִתָּֽךְ׃ | ʾitakh | with you | H854 → | 929 times |
צֵ֖אgo out
tze'H3318 →1067 times
מִן־from
min-H4480 →1188 times
הַתֵּבָ֑הthe ark
hatevahH8392 →28 times
אַתָּ֕הyou
ʾatahH859 →1094 times
וְאִשְׁתְּךָ֛and wife your
veishtekhaH802 →781 times
וּבָנֶ֥יךָand sons your
uvaneikhaH1121 →4930 times
וּנְשֵֽׁי־and [the] wives of
uneshei-H802 →781 times
בָנֶ֖יךָsons your
vaneikhaH1121 →4930 times
אִתָּֽךְ׃with you
ʾitakhH854 →929 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Psalms 121:8The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:6
You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
- Proverbs 2:8
to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
- Proverbs 3:6
in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
- Psalms 113:2
Blessed be the name of the LORD both now and forevermore.
- Ezra 8:31
On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands…
- Deuteronomy 28:6
Through
Zechariah 9:11As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
it leads to
- Isaiah 51:14
The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.
- Exodus 24:8
So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
- Psalms 102:19–21
For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
- Isaiah 51:14
Where this verse is studied
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About Genesis
This page draws on Bede, Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron); Ephrem the Syrian, COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 6.12.2; John Chrysostom, HOMILIES ON GENESIS 26.16; John Damascene, ORTHODOX FAITH 4.24; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.