Genesis 8:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Genesis 8:16 —

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Genesis 7:13
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
Psalms 121:8
The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Acts 16:37-39
But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. …
Joshua 4:16-18
Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. …
Zechariah 9:11
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-19)

Here is, I. Noah’s dismission out of the ark, Gen. 8:15-17. Observe, 1. Noah did not stir till God bade him. As he had a command to go into the ark (Gen. 7:1), so, how tedious soever his confinement there was, he would wait for a command to go out of it again. Note, We must in all our ways acknowledge God, and set him before us in all our removes. Those only go under God’s protection that follow G…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

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.