_AND GOD BLESSED NOAH AND HIS SONS, AND SAID UNTO THEM, BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY, AND REPLENISH THE EARTH._ And God blessed Noah and his sons. In the now expurgated world Noah sustained the character and held the position of a second representative father of the human race. Since the economy of Pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE FEAR OF YOU AND THE DREAD OF YOU SHALL BE UPON EVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH, AND UPON EVERY FOWL OF THE AIR, UPON ALL THAT MOVETH UPON THE EARTH, AND UPON ALL THE FISHES OF THE SEA; INTO YOUR HAND ARE THEY DELIVERED._ And the fear of you and the dread of you. The second re-establishes man's do... [ Continue Reading ]
_EVERY MOVING THING THAT LIVETH SHALL BE MEAT FOR YOU; EVEN AS THE GREEN HERB HAVE I GIVEN YOU ALL THINGS._ Every moving thing ... meat for you. The third part concerns the means of sustaining life: man was for the first time, it would seem, allowed the free and unrestricted use of animal food. It... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT FLESH WITH THE LIFE THEREOF, WHICH IS THE BLOOD THEREOF, SHALL YE NOT EAT._ But flesh ... the blood. The intention of this prohibition was to prevent those excesses of cannibal ferocity, in eating flesh of living animals, to which men in the earlier ages of the world were liable, which is stil... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SURELY YOUR BLOOD OF YOUR LIVES WILL I REQUIRE; AT THE HAND OF EVERY BEAST WILL I REQUIRE IT, AND AT THE HAND OF MAN; AT THE HAND OF EVERY MAN'S BROTHER WILL I REQUIRE THE LIFE OF MAN._ Surely your blood of your lives will I require. "Your blood of your lives," literally, 'for your lives'-for... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHOSO SHEDDETH MAN'S BLOOD, BY MAN SHALL HIS BLOOD BE SHED: FOR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD MADE HE MAN._ Whoso sheddeth man's blood. The Hebrew verb denotes not to commit homicide, but to kill from premeditation or malice (cf. Genesis 37:22; Ezekiel 14:19). The verb being in the participial form, is to b... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YOU, BE YE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY; BRING FORTH ABUNDANTLY IN THE EARTH, AND MULTIPLY THEREIN._ And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply. The Noachidae were the seed by which the world was to be repopulated. They were about to enter upon a new career in the history of human progress; and there can... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GOD SPAKE UNTO NOAH, AND TO HIS SONS WITH HIM, SAYING,_ _ AND GOD SPAKE UNTO NOAH, AND TO HIS SONS WITH HIM, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I, BEHOLD, I ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH YOU, AND WITH YOUR SEED AFTER YOU;_ I, behold, I establish my covenant, х_ MEEQIYM_ (H6965) _ 'ET_ (H854) _ BªRIYTIY_ (H1285)] - set up or make a "covenant" - i:e., a solemn promise of as binding a nature as a covenant. In Genesis 8:20 the secret decree... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WITH EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT IS WITH YOU, OF THE FOWL, OF THE CATTLE, AND OF EVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH WITH YOU; FROM ALL THAT GO OUT OF THE ARK, TO EVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH._ And with every living creature, ... We are taught in Scripture that the most ordinary of God's creatures are always... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH YOU; NEITHER SHALL ALL FLESH BE CUT OFF ANY MORE BY THE WATERS OF A FLOOD; NEITHER SHALL THERE ANY MORE BE A FLOOD TO DESTROY THE EARTH._ Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood. Josephus, who says that Noah accompanied his offerin... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GOD SAID, THIS IS THE TOKEN OF THE COVENANT WHICH I MAKE BETWEEN ME AND YOU AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT IS WITH YOU, FOR PERPETUAL GENERATIONS:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I DO SET MY BOW IN THE CLOUD, AND IT SHALL BE FOR A TOKEN OF A COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND THE EARTH._ I do set my bow in the cloud, х_ NAATATIY_ (H5414)] - I appoint, or constitute, since the word is used elsewhere (Numbers 14:4; 1 Samuel 12:13; 1 Kings 2:35). the rainbow, being the natural effect of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN I BRING A CLOUD OVER THE EARTH, THAT THE BOW SHALL BE SEEN IN THE CLOUD:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF NOAH, THAT WENT FORTH OF THE ARK, WERE SHEM, AND HAM, AND JAPHETH: AND HAM IS THE FATHER OF CANAAN._ The sons of Noah ... were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth (see the note at Gen. 9:32). AND HAM (IS) THE FATHER OF CANAAN. The only conceivable reason why this fourth son of Ham is ment... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE ARE THE THREE SONS OF NOAH: AND OF THEM WAS THE WHOLE EARTH OVERSPREAD._ These are the three sons of Noah. It is here expressly affirmed that the whole population of the world, in all subsequent ages, radiated from one center, sprang from one family, the members of which were the only surviv... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NOAH BEGAN TO BE AN HUSBANDMAN, AND HE PLANTED A VINEYARD:_ AND NOAH BEGAN TO BE AN HUSBANDMAN - literally, And Noah began a man of the ground. It is not implied in this phraseology that he was the first cultivator of the soil; because Cain had engaged in agricultural pursuits long before him ... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DRANK OF THE WINE, AND WAS DRUNKEN; AND HE WAS UNCOVERED WITHIN HIS TENT._ And he drank of the wine, and was drunken. This unhappy incident has been viewed in two ways: (1) As the result of ignorance. Vines were grown in the antediluvian world, as may be inferred from Matthew 24:38. But No... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HAM, THE FATHER OF CANAAN, SAW THE NAKEDNESS OF HIS FATHER, AND TOLD HIS TWO BRETHREN WITHOUT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHEM AND JAPHETH TOOK A GARMENT, AND LAID IT UPON BOTH THEIR SHOULDERS, AND WENT BACKWARD, AND COVERED THE NAKEDNESS OF THEIR FATHER; AND THEIR FACES WERE BACKWARD, AND THEY SAW NOT THEIR FATHER'S NAKEDNESS._ Shem and Japheth took a garment. The Hebrew verb "took" being in the singular, intima... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NOAH AWOKE FROM HIS WINE, AND KNEW WHAT HIS YOUNGER SON HAD DONE UNTO HIM._ And knew what his younger son had done unto him, [Hebrew, _ HAQAATAAN_ (H6996)] - the little, small (son). Jewish writers take this expression to mean grandson; and to their view Dr. Patrick inclines, on the ground tha... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, CURSED BE CANAAN; A SERVANT OF SERVANTS SHALL HE BE UNTO HIS BRETHREN._ And he said - apparently upon awaking and learning what had happened. If we assume a connection of cause and effect between Ham's offence and the malediction which followed, Noah's words were a natural outburst of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF SHEM; AND CANAAN SHALL BE HIS SERVANT._ Blessed be the Lord God of Shem - rather, 'Blessed of Yahweh, my God, be Shem:' an intimation that the descendants of Shem should be specially honoured in the service of the true God, His Church being for ages establis... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD SHALL ENLARGE JAPHETH, AND HE SHALL DWELL IN THE TENTS OF SHEM; AND CANAAN SHALL BE HIS SERVANT._ God shall enlarge Japheth. The blessing bestowed upon Japheth is conveyed in the form of a paronomasia, suggested by his name х_ YEPET_ (H3315) which comes from _ PAATAH_ (H6601), to enlarge, exte... [ Continue Reading ]