Genesis 7:9
Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- duo et duo ingressa sunt ad Noë in arcam, masculus et femina, sicut præceperat Dominus Noë.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δύο δύο εἰσῆλθον πρὸς Νῶε εἰς τὴν κιβωτόν, ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ, καθὰ ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ ὁ θεός.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- שְׁנַ֨יִם שְׁנַ֜יִם בָּ֧אוּ אֶל נֹ֛חַ אֶל הַתֵּבָ֖ה זָכָ֣ר וּנְקֵבָ֑ה כַּֽאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת נֹֽחַ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin, Questions About the Nature of the Body are Sufficiently Mysterious, and Yet Not Higher Than Those of the Soul
What do you say to the statement, that amongst the works of God there are some which it is more difficult to know than even God Himself, so far, indeed, as He can be an object of knowledge to us at all? For we have learnt that God is a Trinity; but to this very day we do not know how many kinds of animals, not even of land animals which were able to enter Noah’s ark, He has created, unless by some happy chance you have ascertained this fact. Again, in the Book of Wisdom it is written, “For if they were able to prevail so much, that they could know and estimate the world; how is it that they did not more easily find out the Lord thereof?” Is it because the subject before us is within us that it is therefore not too high for us? For it must be granted that the nature of our soul is a more internal thing than our body. …