Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. New Living Translation Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth. English Standard Version And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Berean Standard Bible And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. King James Bible And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. New King James Version So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. New American Standard Bible Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. NASB 1995 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. NASB 1977 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Legacy Standard Bible And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Amplified Bible And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Christian Standard Bible God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Holman Christian Standard Bible God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. American Standard Version And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And God blessed Noah and his children and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth. Brenton Septuagint Translation And God blessed Noe and his sons, and said to them, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and have dominion over it. Contemporary English Version God said to Noah and his sons: I am giving you my blessing. Have a lot of children and grandchildren, so people will live everywhere on this earth. Douay-Rheims Bible And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth. English Revised Version And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. GOD'S WORD® Translation God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fertile, increase in number, and fill the earth. Good News Translation God blessed Noah and his sons and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth. International Standard Version God blessed Noah and his sons and ordered them, "Be productive, multiply, and fill the earth. JPS Tanakh 1917 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth. Literal Standard Version And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth; Majority Standard Bible And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. New American Bible God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth. NET Bible Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. New Revised Standard Version God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. New Heart English Bible God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth. Webster's Bible Translation And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. World English Bible God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth. Young's Literal Translation And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Covenant of the Rainbow1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.… Cross References Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth." Genesis 9:2 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. Genesis 9:7 But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it." Genesis 9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated. Genesis 35:11 And God told him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation--even a company of nations--shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you. Treasury of Scripture And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. blessed. Genesis 9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Genesis 1:22,28 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth… Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Be. Genesis 9:7,19 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein… Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. Jump to Previous Blessed Blesseth Blessing Earth Fertile Fill Fruitful Full Increase Multiply Noah ReplenishJump to Next Blessed Blesseth Blessing Earth Fertile Fill Fruitful Full Increase Multiply Noah ReplenishGenesis 9 1. God blesses Noah and his sons, and grants them flesh for food.4. Blood and murder are forbidden. 8. God's covenant, of which the rainbow was constituted a pledge. 18. Noah's family replenishes the world. 20. Noah plants a vineyard, 21. Is drunken, and mocked by his son; 25. Curses Canaan; 26. Blesses Shem; 27. Prays for Japheth, and dies. IX. (1) God blessed Noah.--The blessing bestowed upon Noah, the second father of mankind, is exactly parallel to that given to our first father in Genesis 1:28-29; Genesis 2:16-17, with a significant addition growing out of the history of the past. There is the same command to fill the world with human life, and the same promise that the fear of man shall rest upon the whole animated creation; but this grant of dominion is so extended that the animals are now given to man for his food. But just as there was a restriction as regards Adam's food, the fruit of the tree of knowledge being refused him, so now there is a prohibition against the eating of blood. The addition is the sanctity given to human life, with the evident object of guarding against such a disruption of the human race as was the result of Cain's murder of Abel. Thus, then, man starts afresh upon his task of subjugating the earth, with increased empire over the animal world, and with his own life more solemnly guarded and made secure. Verse 1. - And God - Elohim, not because belonging to the Elohistic document (Block, Tuch, Colcnso); but rather because throughout this section the Deity is exhibited in his relations to his creatures - blessed - a repetition of the primal blessing rendered necessary by the devastation of the Flood (cf. Genesis 1:28) - Noah and his sons, - as the new heads of the race, - and said unto them, - audibly, in contrast to Genesis 8:21, 22, which was not addressed to the patriarch, but spoken by God to himself in his heart, as if internally resolving on his subsequent course of action, - Be fruitful, and multiply. A favorite expression of the Elohist (cf. Genesis 1:28; Genesis 8:17; Genesis 9:1, 7; Genesis 17:20; Genesis 28:3; Genesis 35:11; Genesis 47:27; Genesis 48:14), (Tuch); but(1) the apparently great number of passages melts away when we observe the verbally exact reference of Genesis 8:17; Genesis 9:1, 7 to Genesis 1:28; and of Genesis 48:4 to Genesis 35:11; (2) the Elohist does not always employ his "favorite expression" where he might have done so, as, e.g., not in Genesis 1:22; Genesis 17:6; Genesis 28:14; (3) the Jehovist does not avoid it where the course of thought necessarily calls for it (vide Leviticus 26:9), (Keil). And replenish the earth. The words, "and subdue it, which had a place in the Adamic blessing, and which the LXX. insert here in the Noachic (καὶ κατακυριεύσατε αὐτῆς), are omitted for the obvious reason that the world dominion originally assigned to man in Adam had been forfeited by sin, and could only be restored through the ideal Man, the woman's seed, to whom it had been transferred at the fail Hence says Paul, speaking of Christ: "καὶ πάντα ὑπέταξεν ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ (Ephesians 1:22); and the writer to the Hebrews: νῦν δὲ οὔπω ὀρῶμεν αὐτῷ (i.e. man) τὰ πάντα ὑποτεταγμένα, τὸν δὲ βραχύτι παρ ἀγγέλους ἠλαττομένον βλέπομεν Ἰησοῦν διὰ τὸ πάθημα τοῦ θανάτου δόξη καὶ τιμῆ ἐστεφανωμένον (i.e. the world dominion which David, Psalm 8:6, recognized as belonging to God's ideal man) ὅπως χάριτι θεοῦ ὑπὲρ παντὸς γεύσηται θανάτου (Genesis 2:8, 9). The original relationship which God had established between man and the lower creatures having been disturbed by sin, the inferior animals, as it were, gradually broke loose from their condition of subjection. As corruption deepened in the human race it was only natural to anticipate that man's lordship over the animal creation would become feebler and feebler. Nor, perhaps, is it an altogether violent hypothesis that, had the Deluge not intervened, in the course of time the beast would have become the master and man the slave. To prevent any such apprehensions in the future, as there was to be no second deluge, the relations of man and the lower creatures were to be placed on a new footing. Ultimately, in the palingenesia, they would be completely restored (cf. Isaiah 11:6); in the mean time, till that glorious consummation should arrive, the otherwise inevitable encroachments of the creatures upon the human family in its sin-created weakness should be restrained by a principle of fear. That was the first important modification made upon the original Adamic blessing. Hebrew And Godאֱלֹהִ֔ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative blessed וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ (way·ḇā·reḵ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse Noah נֹ֖חַ (nō·aḥ) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 5146: Noah -- 'rest', patriarch who survived the flood and his sons בָּנָ֑יו (bā·nāw) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 1121: A son and said וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say to them, לָהֶ֛ם (lā·hem) Preposition | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew “Be fruitful פְּר֥וּ (pə·rū) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 6509: To bear fruit, be fruitful and multiply וּרְב֖וּ (ū·rə·ḇū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great and fill וּמִלְא֥וּ (ū·mil·’ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of the earth. הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land Links Genesis 9:1 NIVGenesis 9:1 NLT Genesis 9:1 ESV Genesis 9:1 NASB Genesis 9:1 KJV Genesis 9:1 BibleApps.com Genesis 9:1 Biblia Paralela Genesis 9:1 Chinese Bible Genesis 9:1 French Bible Genesis 9:1 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons (Gen. 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