Genesis 9
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his family and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the land.
Genesis 9:2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be upon every living thing of the land and upon every bird of the sky, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. They are placed into your hand.
Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. And as I gave you the vegetation, I give you everything.
Genesis 9:4 But you will not eat flesh with its throat, that is, its blood.
Genesis 9:5 And for the blood of your throats I will require the same: from every living thing I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require the same for killing the throat of man.
Genesis 9:6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man will his blood be shed, because God made man in his own image.
Genesis 9:7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase on the land and multiply in it.”
Genesis 9:8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, and this is what he said,
Genesis 9:9 “Notice, I am establishing my covenant with you and your seed after you,
Genesis 9:10 and with every living throat that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every living thing of the land with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every living thing of the land.
Genesis 9:11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again will every flesh be cut off by the water of the flood, and never again will there be a flood to destroy the land.”
Genesis 9:12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and every living throat that is with you, for all future generations:
Genesis 9:13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the land.
Genesis 9:14 When I place clouds over the land and the rainbow is seen in the clouds,
Genesis 9:15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living throat of every flesh. And the water will never again become a flood to destroy every flesh.
Genesis 9:16 When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the permanent covenant between God and every living throat of every flesh that is on the land.”
Genesis 9:17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and every flesh that is on the land.”
Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.
Genesis 9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole land were scattered.
Genesis 9:20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.
Genesis 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Genesis 9:24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,
Genesis 9:25 he said, “Canaan is cursed; a slave[1] of slaves will he be to his brothers.”
Genesis 9:26 He also said, “Blessed be Yahveh, the God of Shem; and Canaan will be his slave.
Genesis 9:27 May God expand Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, Canaan will be his slave.”
Genesis 9:28 Noah lived 350 years past the flood.
Genesis 9:29 All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.
[1] עֶבֶד = slave. Genesis 9:25, 26, 27; 12:16; 14:15; 18:3, 5; 19:2, 19; 20:8, 14; 21:25; 24:2, 5, 9, 10, 14, 17, 34, 35, 52, 53, 59, 61, 65, 66; 26:15, 19, 24, 25, 32; 27:37; 30:43; 32:4, 5, 10, 16, 18, 20; 33:5, 14; 39:17, 19; 40:20; 41:10, 12, 37, 38; 42:10, 11, 13; 43:18, 28; 44:7, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33; 45:16; 46:34; 47:3, 4, 19, 25; 50:2, 7, 17, 18.
Genesis 9 quotes:
“The first reference to capital punishment is Genesis 9:6—“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God has God made man.” Murder, the shedding of man’s blood by man, is declared to be a capital crime because of the unique value of human life. Mankind bears the imago Dei, and the willful termination of an embodiment of that image merits the ultimate penalty—death. This principle extends to the entire human race because Noah, to whom it was given, stood at the head of a new beginning of the human race. Principles given to Noah were not confined to any group, family, or cult.”
House, H. Wayne, and John Howard Yoder. The Death Penalty Debate. Word Pub, 1991. p. 30.
“It would indeed appear that by far the largest part of the many millennia of all human history is covered in the brief record contained in roughly chapters 2 through 6 of the book of Genesis (or through chapter 8, if we include the Deluge episode). And, measuring again simply in terms of the passage of time, considerably more than half of the history from the Flood to the present is dealt with in Genesis 9 through 11.
Kline, Meredith G. Kingdom Prologue : Genesis Foundations for a Covenantal Worldview. Wipf and Stock, 2006. p. 10.
“Because of the Flood’s destruction of all life, future generations might conclude that life is cheap to God and assume that humans can do likewise. However, the covenant affirms the sacredness of human life and that murder is punishable by losing one’s life. The text, therefore, institutes the principle of talionic justice, or law of like punishment. It is not-a harsh principle of justice, for it establishes the premise that the punishment should fit the crime.”
Eckman, James P. Christian Ethics in a Postmodern World. Evangelical Training Association, 1999. p. 66.
Genesis 9 links:
A Blessing for Shem & Japheth
A Curse on Canaan
A New Covenant
all about a Promise (part 1)
discovered
Excursus- Moses on the souls of animals
Grudem on the Image of God in humanity
soul searching
the promise – eternal life
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