Chuàngshìjì 9:1

1 Shén cì fú gĕi Nuóyà hé tāde érzi , duì tāmen shuō , nǐmen yào shēng yǎng zhòngduō , biàn mǎn le dì .

Chuàngshìjì 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.

Chuàngshìjì 9:1 In-Context

1 Shén cì fú gĕi Nuóyà hé tāde érzi , duì tāmen shuō , nǐmen yào shēng yǎng zhòngduō , biàn mǎn le dì .

2 Fán dì shàng de zǒushòu hé kòng zhòng de fēiniǎo , dōu bì jīngkǒng , jùpà nǐmen . lián dì shǎng yīqiè de kūnchóng bìng hǎi lǐ yīqiè de yú , dōu jiāofù nǐmen de shǒu .

3 Fán huó zhe de dòngwù , dōu kĕyǐ zuò nǐmen de shíwù . zhè yīqiè wǒ dōu cìgĕi nǐmen , rútóng caìshū yíyàng .

4 Wéidú ròu daì zhe xuè , nà jiù shì tā de shēngmìng , nǐmen bùkĕ chī .

5 Liú nǐmen xuè , haì nǐmen méng de , wúlùn shì shòu , shì rén , wǒ bì tǎo tāde zuì , jiù shì xiàng gèrén de dìxiōng yĕ shì rúcǐ .