Genesis 8:18 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 8:18

So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

KJV

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

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Commentary

1 voice

Ephrem the Syrian

COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 6.12.2 (373)

Those whom he had brought in "one by one" in order to maintain chastity on the ark, he now brought out "two by two" so that they might "be fruitful and multiply in creation."

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּ֖צֵא־	vai.Ye.tze'-	and he went out	H3318 →
נֹ֑חַ	No.ach	Noah	H5146 →
וּבָנָ֛יו	u.va.Nav	and sons his	H1121 →
וְאִשְׁתּ֥וֹ	ve.'ish.To	and wife his	H802 →
וּנְשֵֽׁי־	u.ne.shei-	and [the] wives of	H802 →
בָנָ֖יו	va.Nav	sons his	H1121 →
אִתּֽוֹ׃	'i.To	with him	H854 →

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

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The walk

The walk5

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
Psalms 121:8
The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
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…

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