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OET (OET-RV) Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
OET-LV And_he/it_blessed god DOM Noḩa and_DOM sons_his and_he/it_said to/for_them be_fruitful and_increase/multiply and_fill DOM the_earth/land.
UHB וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־נֹ֖חַ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֑יו וַיֹּ֧אמֶר לָהֶ֛ם פְּר֥וּ וּרְב֖וּ וּמִלְא֥וּ אֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ ‡
(vayəⱱārek ʼₑlohiym ʼet-noaḩ vəʼet-bānāyv vayyoʼmer lāhem pərū ūrəⱱū ūmilʼū ʼet-hāʼāreʦ.)
Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
UST Then God caused Noah and his sons to prosper by saying to them, “Have many children so that you and your descendants will become numerous and live all over the earth.
BSB § And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
OEB Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, ‘Bear children and multiply and repopulate the earth.
WEB God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
NET Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
LSV And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;
FBV God blessed Noah and his sons, and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth!
T4T Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “I want you to have many children who will live all over the earth.
LEB And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
BBE And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.
MOF No MOF GEN book available
JPS And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.
ASV And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
DRA And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth.
YLT And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;
DBY And [fn]God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
9.1 Elohim
RV And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
WBS And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
KJB And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
BB And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.
(And god blessed Noah, and his sons, and said unto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.)
GNV And God blessed Noah and his sonnes, and said to them, Bring foorth fruite, and multiplie, and replenish the earth.
(And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Bring forth fruite, and multiplie, and replenish the earth. )
CB And God blessed Noe and his sonnes, and sayde vnto them: increace & multiplye, and fyll the earth.
(And God blessed Noe and his sons, and said unto them: increace and multiplye, and fill the earth.)
WYC And God blisside Noe and hise sones, and seide to hem, Encreesse ye, and be ye multiplied, and fille ye the erthe;
(And God blessede Noe and his sons, and said to them, Encreesse ye, and be ye/you_all multiplied, and fille ye/you_all the earth;)
LUT Und GOtt segnete Noah und seine Söhne und sprach: Seid fruchtbar und mehret euch und erfüllet die Erde!
(And God segnete Noah and his Söhne and spoke: Seid fruchtbar and mehret you and erfüllet the earth!)
CLV Benedixitque Deus Noë et filiis ejus. Et dixit ad eos: Crescite, et multiplicamini, et replete terram.[fn]
(Benedixitque God Noë and childrens his. And he_said to them: Crescite, and multiplicamini, and replete the_earth/land.)
9.1 Benedixitque Deus Nœ et filiis; etc. Crescite et multiplicamini. Homo in terrorem cæteris animalibus præponitur, in solatium transactæ vindictæ, et ne pauci homines a pluribus bestiis opprimantur, et sciant se irrationabilibus, sed non rationabilibus dominari.
9.1 Benedixitque God Nœ and childrens; etc. Crescite and multiplicamini. Homo in terrorem cæteris animalibus præponitur, in solatium transactæ vindictæ, and ne pauci homines a pluribus bestiis opprimantur, and sciant se irrationabilibus, but not/no rationabilibus dominari.
BRN And God blessed Noe and his sons, and said to them, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and have dominion over it.
BrLXX Καὶ εὐλόγησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν Νῶε, καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ· καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληθύνεσθε, καὶ πληρώσατε τὴν γῆν, καὶ κατακυριεύσατε αὐτῆς.
(Kai eulogaʸsen ho Theos ton Nōe, kai tous huious autou; kai eipen autois; auxanesthe kai plaʸthunesthe, kai plaʸrōsate taʸn gaʸn, kai katakurieusate autaʸs. )
9:1 Be fruitful and multiply: The blessing and mandate first given to Adam (1:28) are now reissued to Noah, the “Adam” of the newly cleansed world in need of repopulation.
God’s Covenant with Noah
The first explicit reference to a covenant in Scripture occurs immediately after the Flood (Gen 9:1-17).
The corruption and violence of the human race had provoked God’s anger (6:11-13), but his gracious favor remained with Noah (6:8). When God charged Noah to build an ark to escape the impending deluge (6:13-17), he also promised to establish a covenant with him (6:18). God took the initiative to bind himself again to human beings and to the whole creation despite human faithlessness (see 6:1-7). Through this covenant, God guaranteed that he would maintain a relationship with this one family even as other divine-human relationships were being severed. God’s covenant promise to Noah came with his command to build an ark (6:14); Noah’s receipt of the covenant blessing depended on his obedience to this divine command (6:22; 7:5).
When Noah made an offering to God after the Flood (8:20-22), God elaborated on his covenant with Noah, indicating that it was a universal covenant with humans and with all living creatures (9:8-10). God promised never to send such a flood again as judgment on the world.
This covenant helps us understand God as a covenant maker. Although human beings deserve punishment because of their wickedness, God withholds ultimate destruction. God’s covenant with Noah did not establish an intimate relationship between God and each living being, but it recalibrated moral and ecological life to be as God intended it (9:1-7), leaving open the possibility of a more intimate covenant to come (see 17:1-21). Despite their evil, human beings are allowed to live in God’s world and seek a deeper relationship with the world’s Creator during their time on earth. God’s later covenants with his people made intimacy with him freely available to all (see Acts 2:22-40; 3:17-26).
Passages for Further Study
וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת נֹ֖חַ וְאֶת בָּנָ֑יו
and=he/it_blessed ʼₑlhīmv DOM Noḩa and=DOM sons,his
See how you translated blessed in Gen 1:22, 28. Alternate translation: “Then God showed favor to Noah and his sons” or “Then God caused Noah and his sons to flourish”
Note 1 topic: writing-quotations
וַיֹּ֧אמֶר לָהֶ֛ם
and=he/it_said to/for=them
The phrase “blessed … and said” is a Hebrew expression that refers to one event and emphasizes it. It does not refer to two separate events. The words of the blessing are in verses 1-7. See how you translated this phrase in Gen 1:28. Alternate translation: “He said,”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
פְּר֥וּ
be_fruitful
Alternate translation: “Bear many children” or “You will bear many children”
Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-logic-goal
וּרְב֖וּ
and=increase/multiply
See how you translated “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” in Gen 1:28. Alternate translation: “so that you and your descendants will increase greatly in number” or “so that you and your descendants will become very many”
וּמִלְא֥וּ אֶת הָאָֽרֶץ
and=fill DOM the=earth/land
Alternate translation: “and fill the earth with people.” or “and inhabit the whole earth.” or “and live all over the world.”