Genesis 7:9

two and two Apparently these words are introduced in order to harmonize the account in this verse with the command in Genesis 6:19, and with the description in Genesis 7:15. There is no mention of the admission of seven, or of seven pairs, of "clean" animals.

male and female The same phrase as in Genesis 7:3; Genesis 6:19: cf. Genesis 1:27. It is not the expression of Genesis 7:2, "the male and his female" (see note). The compiler is following P, who gives one pair of each kind.

God Elohim. So LXX ὁ Θεός; but the LXX text is not uniform. God. E and other MSS. κύριος; Lat. Dominus, and the Samaritan version, and the Targum, represent a text which read "Jehovah." The work of the compiler, which is obvious in these verses, has left the reading in doubt.