Genesis 9:7

Genesis 9:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
• New International Version (NIV)As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it."
• New King James Version (NKJV)And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it.”

Context of Genesis 9:7

5If any person or animal kills a human, I will certainly punish them. Their punishment will be death. 6God made people so that they were like himself. So if anyone kills a human, another human must kill him. But as for you, you should give birth to many children so that you become very many people. There will be many people and they will live all over the earth.’ 8God said to Noah and to his sons, 9‘I promise you that I will obey the covenant that I am making with you. I promise this to you and to all your descendants.

Genesis 9:7 word by word

וְאַתֶּ֖ם פְּר֣וּ וּרְב֑וּ שִׁרְצ֥וּ בָאָ֖רֶץ וּרְבוּ־בָֽהּ׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And you, be ye fruitfulפָּרָהpârâh · be fruitfulH6509
• and multiplyרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
• bring forth abundantlyשָׁרַץshârats · to swarmH8317
• in the earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776

Cross-references for Genesis 9:7

• Genesis 9:1God blessed Noah and his sons. He said to them, ‘Give birth to many children so that you become very many people. Your descendants will live all over the earth.
• Genesis 1:28God blessed them. He said to them, ‘Give birth to children. Grow in number. Fill the earth and rule over it. Rule over the fish in the sea. Rule over the birds in the sky. Rule over every different kind of living animal that moves along the ground.’
• Genesis 8:17Bring every different kind of living animal out of the ship. Bring out the birds, the animals, and the living things that move across the ground. Now they may give birth to young ones again. They can grow in number all over the earth.’

Commentaries on Genesis 9:7

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-7Verses 1-7 - The Blessing of Noah 2. מורא môrā' “fear, reverence, awful deed.” חת chat “dread, breaking of the courage.” Noah is saved from the deluge. His life is twice given to him by God. He had found grace in the sight of the Lord, and now he and his family have been graciously accepted when they approached the Lord with burnt-offerings. In him, therefore, the race of man is to be begun anew. Accordingly, as at the beginning, the Lord proceeds to…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-7Verses 4-7 The main reason of forbidding the eating of blood, doubtless was because the shedding of blood in sacrifices was to keep the worshippers in mind of the great atonement; yet it seems intended also to check cruelty, lest men, being used to shed and feed upon the blood of animals, should grow unfeeling to them, and be less shocked at the idea of shedding human blood. Man must not take away his own life. Our lives are God's, and we must only give…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7be fruitful and multiply; spread out (literally swarm and fill): In contrast to those who would destroy human life (9:5–6), God wants human life to grow and flourish.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-71. And God blessed Noah--Here is republished the law of nature that was announced to Adam, consisting as it originally did of several parts. Be fruitful, &c.--The first part relates to the transmission of life, the original blessing being reannounced in the very same words in which it had been promised at first [Ge 1:28].Read the comment

Topics related to Genesis 9:7

• Covenant
• Propagation

In the dictionaries

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• Covenant
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• Noah
• Set
• Therein
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Commentaries on Genesis 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings