Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
KJV
Hæ sunt generationes Noë : Noë vir justus atque perfectus fuit in generationibus suis ; cum Deo ambulavit.
Vulgate
Αὗται δὲ αἱ γενέσεις Νῶε. Νῶε ἄνθρωπος δίκαιος, τέλειος ὢν ἐν τῇ γενέσει αὐτοῦ· τῷ θεῷ εὐηρέστησεν Νῶε.
LXX
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, andperfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.
ASV
אֵ֚לֶּה תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת נֹ֔חַ נֹ֗חַ אִ֥ישׁ צַדִּ֛יק תָּמִ֥ים הָיָ֖ה בְּ/דֹֽרֹתָ֑י/ו אֶת הָֽ/אֱלֹהִ֖ים הִֽתְהַלֶּךְ נֹֽחַ
Hebrew
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11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
אֵ֖לֶּה
'lh
pronoun · 744×
אֶת
't
preposition · 883×
הוֹלֵ֣ךְ
hvlk
verb · 507×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
כֶ֔ם
km
noun · 164×
ם
m
noun · 39×
נֹ֔חַ
nch
proper_noun · 46×
צַדִּ֑יק
tsdyq
adjective · 199×
תְּמִימִֽם
tmymm
adjective · 90×
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8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2569Prayer is lived in the first place beginning with the realities of creation. the first nine chapters of Genesis describe this relationship with God as an offering of the first-born of Abel's flock, as the invocation of the divine name at the time of Enosh, and as "walking with God.5 Noah's offering is pleasing to God, who blesses him and through him all creation, because his he…
1. There are two kinds of consolation, apparently opposed to one another, but yet contributing great strength each to the other; both of which he has here put forward. The one is when we say that persons have suffered much: for the soul is refreshed, when it has many witnesses of its own sufferings, and this he introduced above, saying, Call to mind the former days, in which af…
Wherefore, let us yield obedience to His excellent and glorious will; and imploring His mercy and loving-kindness, while we forsake all fruitless labours, and strife, and envy, which leads to death, let us turn and have recourse to His compassions. Let us steadfastly contemplate those who have perfectly ministered to His excellent glory. Let us take Enoch, who, being found righ…
And it repented the Lord that he had made man. Moses describes the dreadful corruption which provoked God to destroy the world by the flood. When it is said that God repented, this is spoken after the manner of men, for God is not subject to passions. Yet the expression teaches that sin is so hateful to God that he cannot look upon it without displeasure. Noah found grace in th…
Josephus retells the Genesis narrative: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the genealogy from Adam to Noah, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham and Isaac. He follows the biblical account closely but adds rationalizing explanations and draws on extra-biblical traditions.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 3:6 — And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast
- 1Pet 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
- 2Chr 15:17 — But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
- 2Chr 25:2 — And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
- 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;
- 2Sam 22:24 — I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
- Acts 10:22 — And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house,
- Amos 3:3 — Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
- Deut 18:13 — Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
- Eccl 7:20 — For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
- 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.
- Gal 3:11 — But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
- Gen 2:4 — These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
- Gen 5:22 — And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Gen 5:22 — And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Gen 5:24 — And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
- Gen 7:1 — And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
- Gen 7:1 — And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
- Gen 9:21 — And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
- Gen 10:1 — Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
- Gen 17:1 — And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
- Gen 17:1 — And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
- Gen 24:40 — And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:
- Gen 25:27 — And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
- Gen 48:15 — And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
- Hab 2:4 — Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
- 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
- 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
- Job 1:1 — There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
- Job 1:1 — There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
- Job 1:8 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
- Job 12:4 — I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
- Luke 1:6 — And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
- Luke 2:25 — And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
- Luke 2:25 — And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
- Luke 23:50 — And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:
- Mal 2:6 — The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
- Phil 3:9 — And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
- Prov 4:18 — But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.