Genesis 7:15
New International Version
Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.

New Living Translation
Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes.

English Standard Version
They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

Berean Standard Bible
They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

King James Bible
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

New King James Version
And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

New American Standard Bible
So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

NASB 1995
So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

NASB 1977
So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

Legacy Standard Bible
So they came to Noah into the ark, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

Amplified Bible
So they went into the ark with Noah, two by two of all living beings in which there was the breath and spirit of life.

Christian Standard Bible
Two of every creature that has the breath of life in it came to Noah and entered the ark.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Two of all flesh that has the breath of life in it entered the ark with Noah.

American Standard Version
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They entered with Noah by two into the ark, two of all flesh that had in them the SpiritBreath of life.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
went in to Noe into the ark, pairs, male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

Contemporary English Version
Noah took a male and a female of every living creature with him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.

English Revised Version
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A pair of every living, breathing animal came to Noah to go into the ship.

Good News Translation
A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,

International Standard Version
Two of each living creature entered the ark with Noah.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

Literal Standard Version
And they come to Noah, into the Ark, two by two of all the flesh in which [is] a living spirit;

Majority Standard Bible
They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

New American Bible
Pairs of all creatures in which there was the breath of life came to Noah into the ark.

NET Bible
Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.

New Revised Standard Version
They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

New Heart English Bible
They went to Noah into the vessel, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which is the breath of life.

World English Bible
Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.

Young's Literal Translation
And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which is a living spirit;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Floodwaters Arrive
14they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature. 15They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life. 16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.…

Cross References
Genesis 6:19
And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark--male and female--to keep them alive with you.

Genesis 7:9
came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:14
they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

Genesis 7:16
And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.


Treasury of Scripture

And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

Genesis 6:20
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

Isaiah 11:6
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

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Genesis 7
1. Noah, his family and the living creatures enter the ark.
6. The flood begins.
17. The increase of the flood for forty days.
21. All flesh is destroyed by it.
24. Its duration of 150 days.














Verse 15. - And they went in unto Noah into the ark (cf. Genesis 6:20, which affirmed they should come), two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. Cf. the three expressions for an animated creature - חַיָּה (Genesis 1:30), יְקוּס: (Genesis 7:4), אֲשֶׂראּבּו רוּחַ חיִּיס.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They came
וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ (way·yā·ḇō·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Noah
נֹ֖חַ (nō·aḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5146: Noah -- 'rest', patriarch who survived the flood

to enter
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the ark,
הַתֵּבָ֑ה (hat·tê·ḇāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8392: A box, chest

two
שְׁנַ֤יִם (šə·na·yim)
Number - md
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

by two
שְׁנַ֙יִם֙ (šə·na·yim)
Number - md
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

of every
מִכָּל־ (mik·kāl)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

creature
הַבָּשָׂ֔ר (hab·bā·śār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

with
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

the breath
ר֥וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

of life.
חַיִּֽים׃ (ḥay·yîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life


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