Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
KJV
vocavitque nomen ejus Noë, dicens : Iste consolabitur nos ab operibus et laboribus manuum nostrarum in terra, cui maledixit Dominus.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Νῶε λέγων Οὗτος διαναπαύσει ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων ἡμῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν λυπῶν τῶν χειρῶν ἡμῶν ⸆ καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἧς κατηράσατο Κύριος ὁ θεός.
LXX
and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.
ASV
וַ/יִּקְרָ֧א אֶת שְׁמ֛/וֹ נֹ֖חַ לֵ/אמֹ֑ר זֶ֞֠ה יְנַחֲמֵ֤/נוּ מִֽ/מַּעֲשֵׂ֨/נוּ֙ וּ/מֵ/עִצְּב֣וֹן יָדֵ֔י/נוּ מִן הָ֣/אֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֵֽרְרָ֖/הּ יְהוָֽה
Hebrew
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15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. Moses recites the catalogue of the posterity of Adam through Seth, to show that the Church of God was preserved through that line. The extraordinary longevity recorded here is not to be wondered at as a fable, for God sustained the lives of the patriarchs for the propagation of the human race and the transmission of divine truth from…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 3:20 — Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
- 2Pet 2:5 — And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- Ezek 14:14 — Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
- Ezek 14:20 — Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
- Gen 3:17 — And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sak
- Gen 3:17 — And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sak
- Gen 3:20 — And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- Gen 4:11 — And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
- Gen 6:8 — But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
- Gen 7:23 — And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and N
- Gen 9:24 — And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
- Heb 11:7 — By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness whi
- Isa 54:9 — For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
- Luke 3:36 — Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,
- Matt 24:37 — But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
- Rom 8:20 — For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,