Teks -- Genesis 6:19 (NET)

6:19 You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

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JFB: Gen 6:17-22 - And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood

The repetition of the announcement was to establish its certainty (Gen 41:32). Whatever opinion may be entertained as to the operation of natural laws and agencies in the deluge, it was brought on the world by God as a punishment for the enormous wickedness of its inhabitants.

Clarke: Gen 6:19 - To keep them alive

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.

Calvin: Gen 6:19 - And of every living thing of all flesh

19.And of every living thing of all flesh. “All flesh” is the name he gives to animals of whatsoever kind they may be. He says they went in two and two; not that a single pair of each kind was received into the ark, (for we shall soon see that there were three pairs of the clean kinds, and one animal over, which Noah afterwards offered in sacrifice;) but whereas here mention is made only of offspring, he does not expressly state the number, but simply couples males with females, that Noah might hence perceive how the world was to be replenished.

Defender: Gen 6:19 - two of every sort

Two of each kind of bird, cattle, and creeping thing (the "beasts" are also included in Gen 7:14) were to be put on the ark. Again, marine animals are omitted, as representatives of their kinds could survive outside the ark. Note that the animals were to "come unto thee." God directed to the ark, by a miraculous selection process, those animals who possessed the necessary genes for instincts which would be needed by their survivors in the post-Flood world. Noah did not have to gather the animals himself, but merely opened the ark to the animals God sent."

TSK: Gen 6:19 - two

The cubit being nearly 22 inches, and the ark being 300 cubits in length, 50 in breadth, and 30 in height (Gen 6:15), 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 : Gen 7:2, Gen 7:3, Gen 7:8, Gen 7:9, Gen 7:15, Gen 7:16, Gen 8:17; Psa 36:6

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Poole: Gen 6:19 - Of all flesh two

Of all flesh two i.e. either,

1. By couples, or male and female; but this is mentioned as a distinct thing in the close of the verse. Or rather,

2. Two at least of every sort, even of the unclean; but of the clean more, as is noted Gen 7:2 .

Haydock: Gen 6:19 - Two

Two, intended for the propagation of their kind. God afterwards specifies what more Noe should preserve for food, chap. vii. 2. (Calmet). ---

Wild beasts forgot their savage nature, and became subject to the just Noe; and all came readily at his beck, in the same manner as domestic animals come when we offer them food. Yet, in all this we must acknowledge the work of God, and a sort of miracle. (Haydock)

Gill: Gen 6:19 - 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

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark,.... That is, of fowls, cattle, and creeping things, as after explained; and two of each sort at least were to be brought, as Jarchi observes, and not fewer; though of the clean sort there were to be more, even seven, as after directed; and these were to be brought, that they might preserve their species, as it follows:

to keep them alive with thee; to be fed and nourished by him in the ark, while others perished by the flood, that so they might propagate their own species, and be continued, for which reason it is further ordered:

they shall be male and female; not any two, but one male and one female, for the end before mentioned.