Holy Scripture
Genesis 7:16
A church father on this verse
“When 'God shut Noah into the ark,' you must not imagine that the unbegotten God Himself came down or went up from any place. For the ineffable Father and Lord of all neither has come to any place, nor walks, nor sleeps, nor rises up, but remains in His own place, wherever that is, quick to behold and quick to hear, ha…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noah, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.
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14And all the wild beasts after their kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile moving itself on the earth after its kind, and every flying bird after its kind,
15went in to Noah into the ark, pairs, male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
— Genesis 7:16 —
17And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth.
18And the water prevailed and abounded exceedingly upon the earth, and the ark was borne upon the water.