Genesis 6:19 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 6:19

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

To keep them alive - God might have destroyed all the animal creation, and created others to occupy the new world, but he chose rather to preserve those already created. The Creator and Preserver of the universe does nothing but what is essentially necessary to be done. Nothing should be wantonly wasted; nor should power or skill be lavished where no necessity exists; and yet it required more means and economy to preserve the old than to have created new ones.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This was a great honour put upon him, that not only in him the race of mankind should be kept up, and that from him should proceed a new world, the church, the soul of the world, and Messiah, the head of that church, but that he should be instrumental to preserve the inferior creatures, and so mankind should in him acquire a new title to them and their service.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood--The repetition of the announcement was to establish its certainty (Ge 41:32). Whatever opinion may be entertained as to the operation of natural laws and agencies in the deluge, it was brought on the world by God as a punishment for the enormous wickedness of its inhabitants.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּמִכָּל־	u.mi.kol-	and of every	H3605 →
הָ֠חַי	Ha.chai	<the> living [thing]	H2416 →
מִֽכָּל־	mi.kol	of all	H3605 →
בָּשָׂ֞ר	ba.Sar	flesh	H1320 →
שְׁנַ֧יִם	she.Na.yim	two	H8147 →
מִכֹּ֛ל	mi.Kol	of everything	H3605 →
תָּבִ֥יא	ta.Vi'	you will bring	H935 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
הַתֵּבָ֖ה	ha.te.Vah	the ark	H8392 →
לְהַחֲיֹ֣ת	le.ha.cha.Yot	to preserve alive	H2421 →
אִתָּ֑ךְ	'i.Takh	with you	H854 →
זָכָ֥ר	za.Khar	male	H2145 →
וּנְקֵבָ֖ה	u.ne.ke.Vah	and female	H5347 →
יִֽהְיֽוּ׃	Yih.Yu	they will be	H1961 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 8:17
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”
leads to
- Genesis 1:22
  Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
- Genesis 9:1
  And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
- Psalms 107:38
  He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
- Jeremiah 31:27–28
  “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.
Through
Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
leads to
- Romans 11:33
  O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Isaiah 40:28
  Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching…
- Psalms 77:19
  Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
- Job 37:23
  The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.