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Genesis 6:19-20
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Genesis 6:19-20
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19 You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh,[a] male and female, to keep them alive[b] with you. 20 Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.[c]
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- Genesis 6:19 tn Heb “from all life, from all flesh, two from all you must bring.” The disjunctive clause at the beginning of the verse (note the conjunction with prepositional phrase, followed by two more prepositional phrases in apposition and then the imperfect verb form) signals a change in mood from announcement (vv. 17-18) to instruction.
- Genesis 6:19 tn The Hiphil infinitive construct לְהַחֲיוֹת (lehakhayot, here translated as “to keep them alive”) shows the purpose of bringing the animals into the ark—saving life. The Hiphil of this verb means here “to preserve alive.”
- Genesis 6:20 tn Heb “to keep alive.”
Genesis 7:8-9
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Genesis 7:8-9
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8 Pairs[a] of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground, 9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah,[b] just as God had commanded him.[c]
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- Genesis 7:8 tn Heb “two two” meaning “in twos.”
- Genesis 7:9 tn The Hebrew text of vv. 8-9a reads, “From the clean animal[s] and from the animal[s] which are not clean and from the bird[s] and everything that creeps on the ground, two two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female.”
- Genesis 7:9 tn Heb “Noah”; the pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
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