They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind. The Hebrew х chayaah (H2416), with or without haa'aarets (H776), the earth, signifies a beast of the field, a wild beast (Genesis 1:24). bªheemaah (H929)] includes not only the herd and the flock, but also asses, camels, and other beasts of burden (Numbers 32:26; 2 Kings 3:17). This distinction, it is of importance to notice, since, though "every living thing of all flesh" is mentioned in the first announcement (Genesis 6:19), tame cattle only among quadrupeds are specified (Genesis 7:20), and the introduction of wild beasts must materially affect any estimate we may attempt to form of the difficulties connected with the stowage and provisions of the vessel. Dr. Pye Smith thinks the 'wild animals' were such as we now call game, serviceable to man, but not tamed: "cattle" (Genesis 6:19), the larger domesticated mammifers, such as are specified above, with several species of the deer and goat genre; the "creeping things," mentioned in the same passage, are the smaller quadrupeds, and "birds" were those of the peaceable, useful, and pleasing kinds.