Tree of Life Version
Genesis 9:7
7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply! Flourish in the land and multiply in it.”
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
5Surely your lifeblood will I avenge. From every animal and from every person will I avenge it. From every person’s brother will I avenge that person’s life. 6The one who sheds human blood, by a human will his blood be shed, for in God’s image He made humanity. But as for you, be fruitful and multiply! Flourish in the land and multiply in it.” 8Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9“Now I, behold, I am about to establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
Read all of Genesis 9Genesis 9:7 word by word
וְאַתֶּ֖ם פְּר֣וּ וּרְב֑וּ שִׁרְצ֥וּ בָאָ֖רֶץ וּרְבוּ־בָֽהּ׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Genesis 9:7
- Genesis 9:1God blessed Noah and his sons, and He said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the land.
- Genesis 1:28God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the land, and conquer it. Rule over the fish of the sea, the flying creatures of the sky, and over every animal that crawls on the land.”
- Genesis 8:17Every animal that is with you of all flesh, including the flying creatures, livestock and every crawling creature that crawls on the land, bring out with you, and let them swarm in the land and be fruitful and multiply upon the land.”
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
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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
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