Genesis 7:16 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 7:16

And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

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ASV

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in.

KJV

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.

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Commentary

4 voices

Justin Martyr

Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter CXXVII (165)

When 'God shut Noah into the ark,' you must not imagine that the unbegotten God Himself came down or went up from any place.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

There is much of our gospel duty and privilege to be seen in Noah's preservation in the ark. The apostle makes it a type of our baptism, that is, our Christianity, 1 Pet. iii. It is our great duty, in obedience to the gospel call, by a lively faith in Christ, to come into that way of salvation which God has provided for poor sinners.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The Lord shut him in - This seems to imply that God took him under his especial protection, and as he shut Him in, so he shut the Others out. God had waited one hundred and twenty years upon that generation; they did not repent; they filled up the measure of their iniquities, and then wrath came upon them to the uttermost.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1613: “Shut In Or Shut Out” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1881)

NOAH was a very different man from the rest of those who lived in his time, for the Grace of God had set a division between him and them. They forgot God and Noah feared Him. They lived for things seen and temporal and he lived in sight of the invisible. When he was building the ark, he was in a miserable minority, as men count heads. And, even after 120 years of ministry, when his ark was built and his family entered it, they were eight against many millions—an insignificant few, as men would say—a pitiful sect among mankind.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהַבָּאִ֗ים	ve.ha.ba.'Im	and those [which] came	H935 →
זָכָ֨ר	za.Khar	male	H2145 →
וּנְקֵבָ֤ה	u.ne.ke.Vah	and female	H5347 →
מִכָּל־	mi.kol	of all	H3605 →
בָּשָׂר֙	ba.Sar	flesh	H1320 →
בָּ֔אוּ	Ba.'u	they came	H935 →
כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֛ר	ka.'a.Sher	just as	H834 →
צִוָּ֥ה	tzi.Vah	he had commanded	H6680 →
אֹת֖וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> him	H853 →
אֱלֹהִ֑ים	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →
וַיִּסְגֹּ֥ר	vai.yis.Gor	and he closed	H5462 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
בַּֽעֲדֽוֹ׃	ba.'a.do	behind him	H1157 →

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
Matthew 25:10
But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
leads to
- Luke 13:25
  After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where…
- 1 Peter 1:13
  Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- Matthew 24:44
  For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.
- Luke 12:36–37
  Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.
- Psalms 95:11
  So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
Through
Luke 13:25
After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where…
leads to
- Matthew 25:10–12
  But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
- Luke 13:27
  And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
- Matthew 7:21–23
  Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

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