GEN 9:8 Parallel Verse View

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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).

BrLXX Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ Θεὸς τῷ Νῶε καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ, μετʼ αὐτοῦ λέγων,
(Kai eipen ho Theos tōi Nōe kai tois huiois autou, metʼ autou legōn, )

OEB God also said to Noah and to his sons with him,

WEBBE God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET God said to Noah and his sons,

LSV And God speaks to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

FBV Then God told Noah and his sons who were there with him,

T4T God also said to Noah and his sons,

LEB And God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

BBE And God said to Noah and to his sons,

Moff No Moff GEN book available

JPS And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying:

ASV And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

DRA Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him,

YLT And God speaketh unto Noah, and unto his sons with him, saying,

Drby And [fn]God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

9.8 Elohim

RV And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

Wbstr And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

KJB-1769 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

KJB-1611 ¶ And God spake vnto Noah, and to his sonnes with him, saying;
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps God spake also vnto Noah, & to his sonnes with hym, saying:
(God spake also unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying:)

Gnva God spake also to Noah and to his sonnes with him, saying,
(God spake also to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, )

Cvdl Farthermore, God sayde vnto Noe and to his sonnes wt him:
(Farthermore, God said unto Noe and to his sons with him:)

Wycl and to his sones with him, Lo!
(and to his sons with him, Lo!)

Luth Und GOtt sagte zu Noah und seinen Söhnen mit ihm:
(And God said to Noah and his sonsn with him:)

ClVg Hæc quoque dixit Deus ad Noë, et ad filios ejus cum eo:
(This too he_said God to Noë, and to filios his when/with eo: )

TTN Tyndale Theme Notes:

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

Gen 9:1-17; Ezek 14:12-23; Matt 24:37-39; Heb 11:7

UTN uW Translation Notes:

וַ⁠יֹּ֤אמֶר אֱלֹהִים֙

and=he/it_said ʼElohīm

Alternate translation: “Then God continued speaking”

Note 1 topic: writing-quotations

אֶל נֹ֔חַ וְ⁠אֶל בָּנָ֥י⁠ו אִתּ֖⁠וֹ לֵ⁠אמֹֽר

to/towards Noaḩ and=near/to sons,his with=him/it to=say

God is still speaking to the same people. This phrase emphasizes what he says next to them. Alternate translation: “to Noah and his sons who were with him, and said,” or “to them,”

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