King James Version
Genesis 7:9 in the King James Version says “There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.”
Genesis 7:9 · KJV
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. after: or, on the seventh day
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. windows: or, floodgates
KJV Study — Public Domain
“the male”
H2145properly, remembered, i.e., a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
“as”
H834who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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