Genesis 7:9

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“came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.”

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BSBPD

“came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 7:9 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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 was its name.
  2. Genesis 6:22So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
  3. Genesis 7:16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
  4. Isaiah 11:6The 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Acts 10:11He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
  8. Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  9. 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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