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Selected Verse: Genesis 6:19 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ge 6:19 |
Strong Concordance |
And of every living thing [02416] of all flesh [01320], two [08147] of every sort shalt thou bring [0935] into the ark [08392], to keep them alive [02421] with thee; they shall be male [02145] and female [05347]. |
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King James |
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
two of every sort
Compare (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, 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. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
To keep them alive - God might have destroyed all the animal creation, and created others to occupy the new world, but he chose rather to preserve those already created. The Creator and Preserver of the universe does nothing but what is essentially necessary to be done. Nothing should be wantonly wasted; nor should power or skill be lavished where no necessity exists; and yet it required more means and economy to preserve the old than to have created new ones. Such respect has God to the work of his hands, that nothing but what is essential to the credit of his justice and holiness shall ever induce him to destroy any thing he has made. |
19 And of every living thing [02416] of all flesh [01320], two [08147] of every sort shalt thou bring [0935] into the ark [08392], to keep them alive [02421] with thee; they shall be male [02145] and female [05347].
2 Of every clean [02889] beast [0929] thou shalt take [03947] to thee by sevens [07651] [07651], the male [0376] and his female [0802]: and of beasts [0929] that are not clean [02889] [01931] by two [08147], the male [0376] and his female [0802].