Genesis 9:1

_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 Providence was henceforth to be developed on a different plan from that of the antediluvian world, another covenant was made for the preservation of man in the new order of things. A new charter of privileges was given to him, embodied in a brief and simple but majestic code of fundamental laws, for the authoritative guidance of all future generations; and this legislative enactment is most appropriately represented as proceeding from God (_ 'ELOHIYM_ (H430)), the supreme ruler. Here is republished the law of nature that was announced to Adam, consisting, as it originally did, of several parts....

1._And God blessed Noah_. We hence infer with what great fear Noah had been dejected, because God, so often and at such length, proceeds to encourage him. For when Moses here says, that God blessed Noah and his sons, he does not simply mean that the favor of fruitfulness was restored to them; but that, at the same time, the design of God concerning the new restitution of the world was revealed unto them. For to the blessing itself is added the voice of God by which he addresses them. We know that brute animals produce offspring in no other way than by the blessing of God; but Moses here commemorates a privilege which belongs only to men. Therefore, lest those four men and their wives, seized with trepidation, should doubt for what purpose they had been delivered, the Lord prescribes to them their future condition of life: namely, that they shall raise up mankind from death to life. Thus...

1-3 The blessing of God is the cause of our doing well. On him we depend, to him we should be thankful. Let us not forget the advantage and pleasure we have from the labour of beasts, and which their flesh affords. Nor ought we to be less thankful for the security we enjoy from the savage and hurtful beasts, through the fear of man which God has fixed deep in them. We see the fulfilment of this promise every day, and on every side. This grant of the animals for food fully warrants the use of them, but not the abuse of them by gluttony, still less by cruelty. We ought not to pain them needlessly whilst they live, nor when we take away their lives....

CHAPTER IX _God blesses Noah and his sons_, 1. _The brute creation to be subject to them through fear_, 2. _The first grant of animal food_, 3. _Eating of blood forbidden_, 4. _Cruelty to animals forbidden_, 5. _A man-slayer to forfeit his life_, 6. _The covenant of God established between him and Noah and the_ _whole brute creation_, 8-11. _The rainbow given as the sign and pledge of this covenant_, 12-17. _The three sons of Noah people the whole earth_, 18, 19. Noah plants a vineyard, dr

- 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 bless him. First. The grant of increase is the same as at first, but expressed in ampler terms. Second. Dominion over the other animals is renewed. But some reluctance on their part to yield obedience is intimated. “The fear and dread of you.” These terms give token of a master whose power is dreaded, rather than of a superior whose friendly protection is sought. “Into your hand are they given.” They

EXPOSITION GENESIS 9:1 AND GOD—_Elohim_, not because belonging to the Elohistic document (Block, Tuch, Colcnso); but rather because throughout this section the Deity is exhibited in his relations to his creatures—BLESSED—a repetition of the primal blessing rendered necessary by the devastation of the Flood (cf. Genesis 1:28)—NOAH AND HIS SONS,—as the new heads of the race,—AND SAID UNTO THEM,—audibly, in contrast to Genesis 8:21, Genesis 8:22, which was not addressed to the patriarch, but spoken by God to himself in his heart, as if inte

AND GOD BLESSED NOAH AND HIS SONS,.... With temporal blessings, not spiritual ones; for though some of them were blessed with such, yet not all, particularly Ham: AND SAID UNTO THEM, BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY, AND REPLENISH THE EARTH; depopulated by the flood: this is a renewal of the blessing on Adam, a power and faculty of propagating his species, which was as necessary now as then, since there were so few of the human race left in the world; and the renewal of this grant was the rather necessary, if, as has been observed, Noah and his sons were restrained from cohabiting with their wives while in the ark: but though these words are not an express command for the propagation of their species, yet more than a bare permission, at least they are a direction and instruction to it, and even carry in them a promise of fruitfulness, that they should multiply and increase, which was very needf...

AND SAID UNTO THEM The Noahic Covenant. The elements are: (1) The relation of man to the earth under the Adamic Covenant is confirmed (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 8:21) _ (2) The order of nature is confirmed (Genesis 8:22) (3) Human government is established (Genesis 9:1) (4) Earth is secured against another universal judgment by water (Genesis 8:21); (Genesis 9:11). (5) A prophetic declaration is made that from Ham will descend an inferior and servile posterity ...

CHAPTER 9 The Earth Replenished _ 1. The divine commission (Genesis 9:1)_ 2. The covenant with Noah (Genesis 9:8) 3. The token of the covenant (Genesis 9:12) 4. The family of Noah (Genesis 9:18) 5. Noah's drunkenness (Genesis 9:20) 6. Noah's prophecy (Genesis 9:25) 7. Noah's death (Genesis 9:28) A new start is made after

From P. The links between Genesis 9:1 and P's creation story are very close; the command to multiply, the dominion of man over the animals, the regulations as to food may be specially mentioned, as well as identities and similarities of phrase and style. A change, however, is made in recognition of the innate qualities of creation which have come to light in the interval. It had not been God's original intention that food should be obtained by slaughter; there is no provision in Genesis 1:29 f. for carnivorous men or beasts. But in the light of history the failure of this ideal is recognised, and now slaughter is permitted for food and the animal creation is inspired with a new dread of man. And at this stage no selection is made of those who are eligible for the purpose; in the widest way every moving thing that has l