There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
9. two and two ] Apparently these words are introduced in order to harmonize the account in this verse with the command in Gen 6:19, and with the description in Gen 7:15. There is no mention of the admission of seven, or of seven pairs, of “clean” animals.
male and female ] The same phrase as in Gen 7:3, Gen 6:19: cf. Gen 1:27. It is not the expression of Gen 7:2, “the male and his female” (see note). The compiler is following P, who gives one pair of each kind.
God ] Elohim. So LXX ; but the LXX text is not uniform. God. E and other MSS. ; Lat. Dominus, and the Samaritan version, and the Targum, represent a text which read “Jehovah.” The work of the compiler, which is obvious in these verses, has left the reading in doubt.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
They went by the secret impulse of their great Creator and Governor, (see Gen 2:19; 6:20)
two and two; of which see above, Gen 4:20.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
9. There went in two andtwoDoubtless they were led by a divine impulse. The numberwould not be so large as at first sight one is apt to imagine. It hasbeen calculated that there are not more than three hundred distinctspecies of beasts and birds, the immense varieties in regard to form,size, and color being traceable to the influence of climate and othercircumstances.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark,…. Of themselves, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, being impressed with an instinct from God so to do; or by the ministry of angels, as observed
[See comments on Ge 6:20] there were two of a sort, and some think four:
the male and the female; and of some seven, or seven pairs, as before observed:
as God commanded Noah; which respects his own and his family’s entrance and the creatures; both were commanded by God, and attended to by Noah, who was obedient in all things.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
Ver. 9. There went in two and two. ] Of their own accord, by divine instinct. Noah was not put to the pains of hunting after them, or driving them in. Only he seems to have been six days in receiving and disposing of them in their various cells, and fetching in food. When God bids us do this or that, never stand to cast perils; but set upon the work, yield “the obedience of faith,” and fear nothing. The creatures came in to Noah, without his care or cost. He had no more to do, but to take them in, and place them. The prophet alludes hereto in Isa 11:6-7 , – all bloodiness and rapine aside.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
as God = according as Elohim. Compare Gen 6:13.
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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. beasts 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
Gen 7:16, Gen 2:19, Isa 11:6-9, Isa 65:25, Jer 8:7, Act 10:11, Act 10:12, Gal 3:28, Col 3:11
Reciprocal: Gen 6:19 – two Gen 6:22 – General Gen 7:14 – They
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7:9 There {c} went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
(c) God compelled them to present themselves to Noah, as they did before to Adam, when he gave them names, Gen 2:19.