Genesis 7:8-9 - Exposition

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, there went in two and two into the ark, the male and the female. In obedience to a Divine impulse. Nothing short of Divine power could have effected such a timely and orderly entrance of the creatures into the huge vessel (cf. their mode of exit, Genesis 8:18 ). The seeming inconsistency of this verse with Genesis 7:2 , which says that the clean animals entered the ark by sevens, will be at once removed by connecting Genesis 7:7 and Genesis 7:8 instead of 8 and 9, and commencing a new sentence with Genesis 7:9 . It favors this, that "of" is awanting before "everything that creepeth," and that the LXX . begin Genesis 7:8 with "and". As God had commanded Noah .