Genesis 8:18-19 - Exposition

And Noah went forth ,—in obedience to the Divine command,— and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him ,—in obedience to Noah, to whom alone the Divine instructions were communicated;—an early instance of filial subjection to parents. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth , i.e. the chayyah, the remes, the 'oph, all creepers upon the ground (cf. Genesis 1:26 ; Genesis 7:8 , Genesis 7:14 ), all of which had previously entered in. After their kinds . Hebrew, families, tribes ( Genesis 10:18 ); i.e. not confusedly, but in an orderly fashion, as they had come in, each one sorting to its kind. Went forth out of the ark.