Genesis 6:20 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 6:20

Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

KJV

Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ephrem the Syrian

COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 6.9.2 (373)

On that same day elephants came from the east, apes and peacocks approached from the south, other animals gathered from the west, and still others hastened to come from the north. Lions came from the jungles, and wild beasts arrived from their lairs.

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
מֵהָע֣וֹף	me.ha.'of	of the bird[s]	H5775 →
לְמִינֵ֗הוּ	le.mi.Ne.hu	to kind its	H4327 →
וּמִן־	u.min-	and of	H4480 →
הַבְּהֵמָה֙	ha.be.he.Mah	the animal[s]	H929 →
לְמִינָ֔הּ	le.mi.Nah	to kind its	H4327 →
מִכֹּ֛ל	mi.Kol	from every	H3605 →
רֶ֥מֶשׂ	Re.mes	<the> creeping thing of	H7431 →
הָֽאֲדָמָ֖ה	ha.'a.da.Mah	the ground	H127 →
לְמִינֵ֑הוּ	le.mi.Ne.hu	to kind its	H4327 →
שְׁנַ֧יִם	she.Na.yim	two	H8147 →
מִכֹּ֛ל	mi.Kol	of everything	H3605 →
יָבֹ֥אוּ	ya.Vo.'u	they will come	H935 →
אֵלֶ֖יךָ	'e.Lei.kha	to you	H413 →
לְהַֽחֲיֽוֹת׃	le.Ha.cha.Yot	to preserve alive	H2421 →

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
John 5:40
yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.
leads to
- John 3:19
  And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
- John 1:11
  He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
- Psalms 81:11
  But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
- John 6:37
  Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
- John 7:37–38
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
Through
Genesis 2:19
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…
leads to
- Psalms 8:4–8
  what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
- Genesis 1:28
  God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature…
- Genesis 9:2
  The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea.…