◄ Genesis 6:19 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
And of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

New American Bible
Of all living creatures you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, one male and one female, to keep them alive along with you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.

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And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.

The cubit being nearly

22 inches, and the ark being

300 cubits in length,

50 in breadth, and

30 in height, (ver.

Genesis 6:15 And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

,) its size was equal to

547 feet long,

91 feet broad, and

54 feet high; and it is computed to had been

81,062 tons burthen. These dimensions were sufficient to contain all the persons and animals in it, and food for more than a year.

two.

Genesis 7:2,3,8,9,15,16 Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female. . . .

Genesis 8:17 All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.

Psalm 36:6 Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

Context
Noah Builds the Ark
…18And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee. 19And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.20Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:2
Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.

Genesis 7:8
And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,

Genesis 7:14
They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly,

Genesis 7:15
Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.

Genesis 6:18
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