Genesis 8:16
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New International Version (©2011)
"Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Leave the boat, all of you--you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"It's time for you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives who are with you to leave the ark.

NET Bible (©2006)
"Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Come out of the ship with your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

American King James Version
Go forth of the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

American Standard Version
Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons wives with thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee.

Darby Bible Translation
Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

English Revised Version
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

World English Bible
"Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

Young's Literal Translation
every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, among fowl, and among cattle, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with thee;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:13-19 God consults our benefit, rather than our desires; he knows what is good for us better than we do for ourselves, and how long it is fit our restraints should continue, and desired mercies should be delayed. We would go out of the ark before the ground is dried; and perhaps, if the door, is shut, are ready to thrust off the covering, and to climb up some other way; but God's time of showing mercy is the best time. As Noah had a command to go into the ark, so, how tedious soever his confinement there was, he would wait for a command to go out of it again. We must in all our ways acknowledge God, and set him before us in all our removals. Those only go under God's protection, who follow God's direction, and submit to him.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Go forth of the ark,.... Though the earth was dry and fit to be inhabited, yet be would not go out without orders, as he had to go in; which he waited for before he would, and now he has them:

thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives, with thee: the Jewish writers (z) observe, that the manner of Noah and his family coming out of the ark is different from that of their going into it: when they went into it then went the men by themselves, and the women by themselves, and so continued apart in the ark, the use of the marriage bed being forbidden them, being a time of distress; but now when they came out they are coupled together, signifying that they were now free to cohabit together.

(z) Pirke Eliezer, c. 23. Jarchi in loc.

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Exiting the Ark
…15And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16Go forth of the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. 17Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth. …

Genesis 8:15 Then God said to Noah,
Genesis 8:17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you--the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground--so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it."