Genesis 6:19

Translations

Modern

And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

Traditional

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.

Literal

And from every living thing, from all flesh, two of every kind you shall bring into the ark to keep them alive with you; male and female they shall be.

Latin

Et ex cunctis animantibus universæ carnis bina induces in arcam, ut vivant tecum: masculini sexus et feminini.

Original

Hebrew

English

And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

Notes

Genesis 6:19–20

every kind: God’s instructions to Noah repeat the language of creation (compare 1:24, "according to their kinds").
male and a female: These animals would reproduce and repopulate the earth again after the great flood.

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Noah Retribution Symbolic Numbers The Creation

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God instructs Noah to build the arkc. 2400 BC

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They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
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Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”
Genesis 7:2–3
You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
Psalm 36:6
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

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