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The Great Flood

Genesis 7:9

In 11 translations

BSB
came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
KJV
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
WEB
went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
ASV
there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
LSV
they have come to Noah two by two into the Ark, a male and a female, as God has commanded Noah.
YLT
two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.
DBY
there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.Elohim
DRC
Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.
GNV
There came two and two vnto Noah into the Arke, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
JPS
there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
LXXE
pairs went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noe.

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Original-language editions

WLC
שְׁנַ֨יִם שְׁנַ֜יִם בָּ֧אוּ אֶל־נֹ֛חַ אֶל־הַתֵּבָ֖ה זָכָ֣ר וּנְקֵבָ֑ה כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת־נֹֽחַ׃
LXX-Br
δύο δύο εἰσῆλθον πρὸς Νῶε εἰς τὴν κιβωτὸν ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ, καθὰ ἐνετείλατο ὁ Θεὸς τῷ Νῶε.

Who and where

👤 God👤 Noah◆ The Great Flood begins◆ The Great Flood

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Part of

  • Noah and the Flood When human violence fills the earth, God grieves and resolves to judge it, but Noah finds favour and is told to build an ark for his family …

Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 2:19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that…
  • Genesis 7:16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
  • Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  • Jeremiah 8:7Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
  • Acts 10:11–12He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.
  • Isaiah 65:25The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
  • Isaiah 11:6–9The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them. The cow will graze with the bear, their young will…
  • Colossians 3:11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

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