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New American Standard Bible

Genesis 7:15

So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ark;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Seven;   Soul;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Holy spirit;   Spirit;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Flood, the;   Life;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Deluge;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Year;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Breath;   Breath of Life;   Life;   Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deluge;   Hexateuch;   Time;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Type;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Noah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Flood;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Noah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Birds;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
Update Bible Version
And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.
New Century Version
Every creature that had the breath of life came to Noah in the boat in groups of two.
New English Translation
Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which [is] the breath of life.
World English Bible
They went to Noah into the ark, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
Amplified Bible
So they went into the ark with Noah, two by two of all living beings in which there was the breath and spirit of life.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
bi tweyne and bi tweyne of ech fleisch in whiche the spirit of lijf was.
Young's Literal Translation
And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which [is] a living spirit;
Berean Standard Bible
They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
Contemporary English Version
Noah took a male and a female of every living creature with him,
Complete Jewish Bible
They went in to Noach in the ark, couples from every kind of living thing that breathes.
American Standard Version
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.
Bible in Basic English
They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they came vnto Noah into the arke, two and two, of all fleshe wherein is the breath of lyfe.
Darby Translation
And they went to Noah, into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which was the breath of life.
Easy-to-Read Version
All these animals went into the boat with Noah. They came in groups of two from every kind of animal that had the breath of life.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.
King James Version (1611)
And they went in vnto Noah into the Arke, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
King James Version
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
New Life Bible
They went into the large boat with Noah, two of every living thing.
New Revised Standard
They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they entered in unto Noah, into the ark, - two and two of all flesh, wherein was the spirit of life.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For they came to Noah into ye Arke, two and two, of all flesh wherein is ye breath of life.
George Lamsa Translation
They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which there is the breath of life.
Good News Translation
A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.
Revised Standard Version
They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
went in to Noe into the ark, pairs, male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
English Revised Version
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.
Christian Standard Bible®
Two of every creature that has the breath of life in it came to Noah and entered the ark.
Hebrew Names Version
They went to Noach into the teivah, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
Lexham English Bible
And they came to Noah to the ark, two of each, from every living thing in which was the breath of life.
Literal Translation
And they went in to Noah and to the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which is the breath of life.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These wente all vnto Noe in to the Arcke by cooples, of all flesh in whom was the breth of life.
New King James Version
And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
New Living Translation
Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.
Legacy Standard Bible
So they came to Noah into the ark, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

Contextual Overview

13 On this very same day Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, 14 they and every animal according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kind, and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, all sorts of birds. 15 So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.16 Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed the door behind him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 6:20, Isaiah 11:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:17 - is the Genesis 6:19 - two Genesis 8:17 - Bring Zephaniah 2:3 - hid

Cross-References

Genesis 7:19
And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.
Genesis 7:20
The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
Isaiah 11:6
And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fattened steer will be together; And a little boy will lead them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they went in unto Noah into the ark,.... Noah went in first, and the creatures of themselves came to him, or were conducted by the ministry of angels; and they were delivered into his hands, and he placed them in the ark as was most convenient for them: it is very likely he went in and out as occasion required, for the better management and disposition of things; for he seems to be the last of all that went in, see Genesis 7:16:

two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life; they that went by sevens, yet being seven couples, as has been observed, as those which were only two or four, went by pairs: this is true of them all.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- XXV. The Flood

The date is here given, at which the flood commenced and the entrance into the ark was completed. “In seven days.” On the seventh day from the command. “In the second month.” The primeval year commenced about the autumnal equinox; we may say, on the nearest new moon. The rains began about a month or six weeks after the equinox, and, consequently, not far from the seventeenth of the second month. “All the fountains of the great deep, and the windows of the skies.” It appears that the deluge was produced by a gradual commotion of nature on a grand scale. The gathering clouds were dissolved into incessant showers. But this was not sufficient of itself to effect the overwhelming desolation that followed. The beautiful figure of the windows of the skies being opened is preceded by the equally striking one of the fountains of the great deep being broken up. This was the chief source of the flood. A change in the level of the land was accomplished. That which had emerged from the waters on the third day of the last creation was now again submerged. The waters of the great deep now broke their bounds, flowed in on the sunken surface, and drowned the world of man, with all its inhabitants. The accompanying heavy rain of forty days and nights was, in reality, only a subsidiary instrument in the deluging of the land. We may imagine the sinking of the land to have been so gradual as to occupy the whole of these forty days of rain. There is an awful magnificence in this constant uplifting of the billows over the yielding land.

Genesis 7:13-16

There is a simple grandeur in the threefold description of the entrance of Noah and his retinue into the ark, first in the command, next in the actual process during the seven days, and, lastly, in the completed act on the seventh day. “Every living thing after its kind” is here unaccompanied with the epithet רעה rā‛âh, evil, or the qualifying term of the land or of the field, and therefore may, we conceive, be taken in the extent of Genesis 6:20; Genesis 7:2-3, Genesis 7:6. At all events the whole of the wild animals did not need to be included in the ark, as their range was greater than that of antediluvian man or of the flood. “And the Lord shut him in.” This is a fitting close to the scene. The whole work was manifestly the Lord’s doing, from first to last. The personal name of God is appropriately introduced here. For the Everlasting now shows himself to be the causer or effecter of the covenant blessing promised to Noah. In what way the Lord shut him in is an idle question, altogether unworthy of the grandeur of the occasion. We can tell nothing more than what is written. We are certain that it would be accomplished in a manner worthy of him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Genesis 7:15. And they went in, &c. — It was physically impossible for Noah to have collected such a vast number of tame and ferocious animals, nor could they have been retained in their wards by mere natural means. How then were they brought from various distances to the ark and preserved there? Only by the power of God. He who first miraculously brought them to Adam that he might give them their names, now brings them to Noah that he may preserve their lives. And now we may reasonably suppose that their natural enmity was so far removed or suspended that the lion might dwell with the lamb, and the wolf lie down with the kid, though each might still require his peculiar aliment. This can be no difficulty to the power of God, without the immediate interposition of which neither the deluge nor the concomitant circumstances could have taken place.


 
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