Genesis 7:7-9

7:7 Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because ¹  of the floodwaters. 7:8 Pairs ²  of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground, 7:9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, ³  just as God had commanded him. ⁴ 

¹ tn The preposition מִן (min) is causal here, explaining why Noah and his family entered the ark.

² tn Heb “two two” meaning “in twos.”

³ tn The Hebrew text of vv. 8-9a reads, “From the clean animal[s] and from the animal[s] which are not clean and from the bird[s] and everything that creeps on the ground, two two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female.”

⁴ tn Heb “Noah”; the pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.