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.
19. two of every sort ] Observe that here one pair of every kind of living creature is to be brought into the ark.
“Male and female,” as in Gen 1:27 (P). A different phrase is used in Gen 7:2 (J), where see note.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 19. 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. Such respect has God to the work of his hands, that nothing but what is essential to the credit of his justice and holiness shall ever induce him to destroy any thing he has made.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Of all flesh two; i.e. either,
1. By couples, or male and female; but this is mentioned as a distinct thing in the close of the verse. Or rather,
2. Two at least of every sort, even of the unclean; but of the clean more, as is noted Gen 7:2.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
17-22. And, behold, I, even I, dobring a floodThe repetition of the announcement was toestablish its certainty (Ge 41:32).Whatever opinion may be entertained as to the operation of naturallaws and agencies in the deluge, it was brought on the world by Godas a punishment for the enormous wickedness of its inhabitants.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark,…. That is, of fowls, cattle, and creeping things, as after explained; and two of each sort at least were to be brought, as Jarchi observes, and not fewer; though of the clean sort there were to be more, even seven, as after directed; and these were to be brought, that they might preserve their species, as it follows:
to keep [them] alive with thee; to be fed and nourished by him in the ark, while others perished by the flood, that so they might propagate their own species, and be continued, for which reason it is further ordered:
they shall be male and female; not any two, but one male and one female, for the end before mentioned.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
19. And of every living thing of all flesh. “All flesh” is the name he gives to animals of whatsoever kind they may be. He says they went in two and two; not that a single pair of each kind was received into the ark, (for we shall soon see that there were three pairs of the clean kinds, and one animal over, which Noah afterwards offered in sacrifice;) but whereas here mention is made only of offspring, he does not expressly state the number, but simply couples males with females, that Noah might hence perceive how the world was to be replenished.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(19-22) of every living thing of all flesh, two . . . The vast size of the ark and the wide terms used of the animals to be collected into it, make it evident that Noah was to save not merely his domestic cattle, but many wild species of beasts, birds, and creeping things. But the terms are conditioned by the usual rules for the interpretation of the language of Holy Scripture, and by the internal necessities of the event itself. Thus the animals in the ark could not have been more in number than four men and four women could attend to Next, the terms exclude the carnivora (see also Note on Gen. 9:5). Not only was there no supply of animals taken on board to feed them, but half-tamed as they would have been by a years sojourn in the ark, they would have remained in Noahs neighbourhood, and very soon have destroyed all the cattle which had been saved, especially as far and wide no other living creatures would have existed for their food. But if miracles are to be invoked to obviate these and similar difficulties. not only would it have been easier to save Noah and the denizens of the ark by one display of supernatural power, but the ark was the means provided by God for this purpose; and if He wrought thus far by human instrumentality, in accordance with the usual law of the Divine working on earth, to help out the human means employed by repeated acts of omnipotence would have been to proclaim it as insufficient. It does not follow from this that no special providence watched over and guided the ark; such providence is often exercised now, but it works through and in accordance with the ordinary laws by which God governs the world.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
19. Two of every sort From this statement, repeated in the next verse, as well as from that made in Gen 7:15-16, it would be understood that only a pair of the animals were to be preserved; but from Gen 7:2-3, we see that the clean beasts and fowls went into the ark by seven pairs. Animals instinctively foresee great natural convulsions or earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tornadoes, and often, on such occasions, quite subdued by fear, seek human protection. It is natural to suppose that there would have been in the earth, atmosphere, and clouds fearful premonitions of this unparalleled convulsion, which lasted through forty days, and which is described as opening the windows of heaven and breaking up “the fountains of the great deep.” Beasts and birds of all kinds, that is, of all the species in that region, affrighted by these signs of the coming tempest, and tamed by their fears, may be reasonably believed to have gathered around or settled on the vast ark, during the few days before the deluge actually began. From these Noah selected twos or sevens of each kind. Instinct was thus providentially (we need not say miraculously) made the means of their preservation.
Shalt thou bring They came unto Noah, (Gen 5:20,) and he caused them to come (for this is the true idea of the word rendered bring) into the ark .
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Gen 6:19. And of, &c. See ch. Gen 2:19. shalt thou bring, it is here said: and lest it might appear an impossibility for Noah to do so, God says, in the next verse, that they shall come to Noah: he himself, by his divine power, causing them to come into the ark to him. The first words might be rendered, thou shalt introduce, more conformably to the latter, they shall come: “they shall come, impelled by my power, and thou shalt introduce them to the several places appointed for them in the ark.”
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
two. For preservation of species. In contrast with the “seven” (Gen 7:2) clean animals, which were for sacrifice. Hence here it is Elohim (verses: Gen 6:13, Gen 6:22, Gen 6:9) as the Creator; while in Genesis 7: it is Jehovah in His covenantrelation. See App-4.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
two of every sort
Cf Gen 7:2.
In addition to two animals, etc., commanded (Gen 6:19) to be preserved for future increase (“they shall be male and female”), the further command was given more than 100 years later to take of clean beasts, i.e, acceptable for sacrifice, seven each. Exodus gives ten such beasts, or but seventy in all. Modern ships carry hundreds of live beasts, with their food, besides scores of human beings.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
The cubit being nearly 22 inches, and the ark being 300 cubits in length, 50 in breadth, and 30 in height – Gen 6:15, its size was equal to 547 feet long, 91 feet broad, and 54 feet high; and it is computed to had been 81,062 tons burthen. These dimensions were sufficient to contain all the persons and animals in it, and food for more than a year.
two: Gen 7:2, Gen 7:3, Gen 7:8, Gen 7:9, Gen 7:15, Gen 7:16, Gen 8:17, Psa 36:6
Reciprocal: Gen 47:25 – Thou hast