They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind,.... They, Noah and his family, went into the ark; as did all sorts of beasts and cattle, reckoned one hundred and thirty sorts, by some one hundred and fifty, including serpents:

and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind; supposed to be scarce thirty sorts; not one sort of creature was left out, though ever so small, and despicable:

every fowl after his kind; Bishop Wilkins has divided them into nine sorts, and reckons them up to be one hundred and ninety five in the whole;

every [bird of] every sort, or "bird of every wing" k, let their wings be what they will; some, as Ainsworth observes, are winged with feathers, others with skin, as bats.

k כל צפור כל כנף "omnes aves cujuscunque alae", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt.

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