Génesis 9:1

1 Dios confirma su pacto
Después Dios bendijo a Noé y a sus hijos, y les dijo: «Sean fructíferos y multiplíquense; llenen la tierra.

Génesis 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.

Génesis 9:1 In-Context

1 Dios confirma su pacto
Después Dios bendijo a Noé y a sus hijos, y les dijo: «Sean fructíferos y multiplíquense; llenen la tierra.

2 Todos los animales de la tierra, todas las aves del cielo, todos los animales pequeños que corren por el suelo y todos los peces del mar tendrán temor y terror de ustedes. Yo los he puesto bajo su autoridad.

3 Se los he dado a ustedes como alimento, como les he dado también los granos y las verduras;

4 pero nunca deben comer de ninguna carne con su vida, es decir, que aún tenga sangre.

5 »Yo exigiré la sangre de cualquiera que le quite la vida a otra persona. Si un animal salvaje mata a una persona, ese animal debe morir; y cualquiera que asesine a otro ser humano debe morir.