שְׁנַיִם שְׁנַיִם בָּאוּ אֶל נֹחַ אֶל הַתֵּבָה זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה אֱלֹקים אֶת נֹחַ
They came to Noach in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noach.
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God had commanded Noach to take in the animals. But it wasn’t within Noach’s power to determine which animals had kept the purity of their breed and should come. This, God brought about.
Also, take note that in verse 5 above it was “as י-ה-ו-ה (the name used to express the God of mankind, the God who command man and guides the world for the sake of man) commanded him”. And here it is “as אלקים (the name used to express the God of nature) commanded him”.
We see here a truth that appears throughout the Torah : The God who commands man is the very same God who the Lawgiver and the Director of nature. השם הוא האלקים
(We see this expressed in Psalms 147:15-19. “He sends snow, freezing cold, he melts the ice…. He teaches his statutes and laws to Israel, etc.”)
God’s Word is given to nature and all of nature obeys it. God’s Word is given to man for him to obey it by his own free will.
Beraishis 7:9
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