Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
KJV
Benedixitque Deus Noë et filiis ejus. Et dixit ad eos : Crescite, et multiplicamini, et replete terram.
Vulgate
Καὶ ηὐλόγησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν Νῶε καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληθύνεσθε, καὶ πληρώσατε τὴν γῆν καὶ κατακυριεύσατε αὐτῆς.
LXX
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
ASV
וַ/יְבָ֣רֶךְ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת נֹ֖חַ וְ/אֶת בָּנָ֑י/ו וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר לָ/הֶ֛ם פְּר֥וּ וּ/רְב֖וּ וּ/מִלְא֥וּ אֶת הָ/אָֽרֶץ
Hebrew
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Noah
In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
בָּר֥וּךְ
brvk
verb · 324×
הַרְבֵּ֥ה
hrbh
verb · 233×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
מָלְאָ֥ה
ml'h
verb · 248×
נֹ֔חַ
nch
proper_noun · 46×
פְּר֣וּ
prv
verb · 29×
Themes
Typology
Covenant
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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And God blessed Noah and his sons. The covenant with Noah is a renewal of the original blessing given to Adam. The prohibition of blood points to the sacredness of life. The rainbow is the sign of the covenant — not that it had not existed before, but that God now appointed it as a pledge of his faithfulness. Noah's drunkenness shows that even the most holy men may fall into gr…
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
- Exod 1:7 — And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
- Gen 1:22 — And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
- Gen 1:22 — And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
- Gen 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 ever
- Gen 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 ever
- Gen 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 e
- Gen 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 e
- Gen 9:7 — And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
- Gen 9:7 — And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
- 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 24:60 — And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
- Gen 28:3 — And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
- Gen 35:11 — And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
- Heb 1:1 — God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
- Isa 45:18 — For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and the
- Isa 51:2 — Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
- 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,
- Ps 107:38 — He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
- Ps 115:16 — The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
- Ps 128:3 — Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.