Genesis 7:9

7:9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, ¹  just as God had commanded him. ² 

Genesis 7:16

7:16 Those that entered were male and female, ³  just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

Genesis 21:4

21:4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, ⁴  Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do. ⁵ 

Genesis 26:5

26:5 All this will come to pass ⁶  because Abraham obeyed me ⁷  and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” ⁸ 

[7:9]  ¹ 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.”

[7:9]  ² tn Heb “Noah”; the pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:16]  ³ tn Heb “Those that went in, male and female from all flesh they went in.”

[21:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “Isaac his son, the son of eight days.” The name “Isaac” is repeated in the translation for clarity.

[21:4]  ⁶ sn Just as God had commanded him to do. With the birth of the promised child, Abraham obeyed the Lord by both naming (Gen 17:19) and circumcising Isaac (17:12).

[26:5]  ⁷ tn The words “All this will come to pass” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for stylistic reasons.

[26:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “listened to my voice.”

[26:5]  ⁹ sn My charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. The language of this verse is clearly interpretive, for Abraham did not have all these laws. The terms are legal designations for sections of the Mosaic law and presuppose the existence of the law. Some Rabbinic views actually conclude that Abraham had fulfilled the whole law before it was given (see m. Qiddushin 4:14). Some scholars argue that this story could only have been written after the law was given (C. Westermann, Genesis, 2:424-25). But the simplest explanation is that the narrator (traditionally taken to be Moses the Lawgiver) elaborated on the simple report of Abraham’s obedience by using terms with which the Israelites were familiar. In this way he depicts Abraham as the model of obedience to God’s commands, whose example Israel should follow.