And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
- 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…
Adam Clarke
God blessed Noah - Even the increase of families, which appears to depend on merely natural means, and sometimes fortuitous circumstances, is all of God. It is by his power and wisdom that the human…
We read, in the close of the foregoing chapter, the very kind things which God said in his heart, concerning the remnant of mankind which was now left to be the seed of a new world. Now here we have…
Cambridge Bible
And God blessed, &c. The substance of this verse is a repetition of Gen 1:28. Another chapter in history is begun. As in chap. 1, after the Creation, a single pair confronted the whole earth and its…
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