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two and two of all flesh (the male and the female) went 

 unto Noah into the Ark. It is also repeated in verse 15 

 that they zvent in unto Noah into the Ark two and 

 two of all flesh ; and in verse 16 it is stated, 'and the 

 Lord shut him in.' 



Noah, on the appointed day, went into the Ark with 

 his family. Then entered unto him two and two of all 

 creatures, and, when all were in, the door was shut. 

 Following this train of thought, it would not require any 

 great stretch of imagination to believe that the horses, 

 freed from their long confinement, upon leaving the Ark 

 would at once, or so soon as the state of the ground 

 would permit, seek the place from whence they had 

 come, and which was most congenial to them. 



If this supposition be correct — and I confess I have a 

 decided opinion in its favour — the horse would be found 

 in Arabia by Joktan and his family after the dispersion 

 at Babel, who would hold him in their complete posses- 

 sion ; and from Arabia the horse would have gone forth 

 into other parts of the world (as he has subsequently 

 done at different periods of his history), and this would 

 allow ample time for the horse to be established in 

 Egypt by the time he is first mentioned in the days of 

 Joseph. 



There is yet another view. Bishop Patrick, in his 

 Notes on Genesis, believes that all the posterity of Noah, 

 much less Noah himself, were not at the building of 

 Babel ; and therefore the language of Noah was not 

 changed. It is probable, also, although I would not 

 insist upon this view, that Shem and his descendants, 



