Genèse 9:1

1 Et Dieu bénit Noé, et ses fils, et leur dit: Croissez et multipliez, et remplissez la terre;

Genèse 9:1 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 9:1

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 multiply, and replenish the
earth;
depopulated by the flood: this is a renewal of the blessing on Adam, a power and faculty of propagating his species, which was as necessary now as then, since there were so few of the human race left in the world; and the renewal of this grant was the rather necessary, if, as has been observed, Noah and his sons were restrained from cohabiting with their wives while in the ark: but though these words are not an express command for the propagation of their species, yet more than a bare permission, at least they are a direction and instruction to it, and even carry in them a promise of fruitfulness, that they should multiply and increase, which was very needful at this time.

Genèse 9:1 In-Context

1 Et Dieu bénit Noé, et ses fils, et leur dit: Croissez et multipliez, et remplissez la terre;

2 Et vous serez craints et redoutés de tous les animaux de la terre, et de tous les oiseaux des cieux; avec tout ce qui se meut sur le sol et tous les poissons de la mer, ils sont remis entre vos mains.

3 Tout ce qui se meut et qui a vie, vous servira de nourriture; je vous donne tout cela comme l'herbe verte.

4 Seulement, vous ne mangerez point de chair avec son âme, c'est à dire son sang.

5 Et certainement je redemanderai votre sang, le sang de vos âmes; je le redemanderai de tout animal. Et je redemanderai l'âme de l'homme, de la main de l'homme, de la main de son frère.