Genesis 9:1

1 Und Gott segnete Noah und seine Söhne und sprach: Seid fruchtbar und mehrt euch und erfüllt die Erde.

Genesis 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.

Genesis 9:1 In-Context

1 Und Gott segnete Noah und seine Söhne und sprach: Seid fruchtbar und mehrt euch und erfüllt die Erde.

2 Furcht und Schrecken vor euch sei über alle Tiere auf Erden und über alle Vögel unter dem Himmel, über alles, was auf dem Erdboden kriecht, und über alle Fische im Meer; in eure Hände seien sie gegeben.

3 Alles, was sich regt und lebt, das sei eure Speise; wie das grüne Kraut habe ich's euch alles gegeben.

4 Allein eßt das Fleisch nicht, das noch lebt in seinem Blut.

5 Auch will ich eures Leibes Blut rächen und will's an allen Tieren rächen und will des Menschen Leben rächen an einem jeglichen Menschen als dem, der sein Bruder ist. {~} {~}