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Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
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A Divine Menagerie
Commentators like Spurgeon and Calvin emphasize that Noah did not hunt or capture the animals. Instead, God sovereignly brought them to the ark. Calvin suggests this was a temporary restoration of humanity's original, pre-Fall authority over creation, demonstrating that God's power works through the obedience of His people.
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Genesis
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18th Century
Presbyterian
19th Century
Anglican
Beasts. —Hebrew, of the clean cattle and of the cattle that was not clean. In the Chaldean Genesis, Xisuthrus al…
Baptist
This largest and most complete menagerie that was ever gathered together was not collected by human skill; divine power alone could have accomplish…
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16th Century
Protestant
Of clean beasts. Moses now explains—what had previously been doubtful—how the animals were gathered together into the ark, and says that t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean Seven couple of the one, and a couple of the other: and of …
The call to Noah is very kind, like that of a tender father to his children to come indoors when he sees night or a storm coming. Noah did not go i…
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