Genesis 9:1
God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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- Gen 1:28 : 28 God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”
- Gen 8:17 : 17 Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”
- Gen 9:7 : 7 But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”
- Gen 1:22 : 22 God blessed them and said,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
- Ps 128:3-4 : 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table. 4 Yes indeed, the man who fears the LORD will be blessed in this way.
- Isa 51:2 : 2 Look at Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who gave you birth. When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, but I blessed him and gave him numerous descendants.
- Gen 2:3 : 3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.
- Gen 9:19 : 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
- Gen 10:32 : 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.
- Gen 24:60 : 60 They blessed Rebekah with these words:“Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”
- Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise the LORD! How blessed is the one who obeys the LORD, who takes great delight in keeping his commands.
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- Gen 9:7-126 verses88%
7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”
8God said to Noah and his sons,
9“Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you
10and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you– every living creature of the earth.
11I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”
12And God said,“This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:
- Gen 1:28-292 verses87%
28God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”
29Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
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22God blessed them and said,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
- Gen 8:15-195 verses83%
15Then God spoke to Noah and said,
16“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
17Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”
18Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
19Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.
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2Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.
- Gen 9:17-204 verses79%
17So God said to Noah,“This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”
18The Curse of Canaan The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.(Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)
19These were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
20Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.
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3May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.
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29He named him Noah, saying,“This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
- Gen 6:9-102 verses74%
9The Judgment of the Flood This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.
10Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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26Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”
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25So he said,“Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”
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32These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.
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1The Table of Nations This is the account of Noah’s sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
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13So God said to Noah,“I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.
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14saying,“Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.”
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1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.
- Gen 9:27-282 verses72%
27May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth!”
28After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
- Gen 7:7-93 verses72%
7Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.
8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
9male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.
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1The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
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21And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.”
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11God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.
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1God’s Grief over Humankind’s Wickedness When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
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15then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.
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18but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark– you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
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6Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters to get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.