Genesis 8:16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

◄ Genesis 8:16 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Ge 8:15-22. Departure from the Ark.

15, 16. And God spake … Go forth—They went forth in the most orderly manner—the human occupants first, then each species "after their kinds" [Ge 8:19], literally, "according to their families," implying that there had been an increase in the ark.