Genesis 9 (Bereshit)

Genesis 9 (Bereshit) Outline

Genesis 9 (Bereshit) can be navigated in three possible ways. (1) Jewish tradition of daily reading called Torah Portions, (2) Professor Umberto Cassuto’s method of semitic literature, and (3) theme-based verses.

Genesis 9 (Bereshit) English Verses

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→ God’s Blessing to Noah and His Sons

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.
4 Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.’

→ The Divine Promise to Fulfill and Extend the Covenant

8 And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying:
9 ‘As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish My covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.’

→ The Sign of the Covenant

12 And God said: ‘This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow is seen in the cloud,
15 that I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.’
17 And God said unto Noah: ‘This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.’

→ Opening Verse of this Section

18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19 These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread.

→ The Incident

20 And Noah the husbandman began, and planted a vineyard.
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

→ The Blessing and Curse

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him.
25 And he said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.
27 God enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.

→ The Death of Noah

28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

Genesis 9 (Bereshit) English Verses

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Genesis 9 (Bereshit) בראשית Hebrew Verses

Genesis 9 (Bereshit) בראשית Interlinear Verses

9.1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.

א וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־נֹ֖חַ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֑יו וַיֹּ֧אמֶר לָהֶ֛ם פְּר֥וּ וּרְב֖וּ וּמִלְא֥וּ אֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ

Genesis (Bereshit) Chapters

Audio Podcasts

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Parsha Notes

• Parsha Noach

Hebrew Studies

• Parsha Noach – Hebrew
• Bible Hub Interlinear Chapter 9

Downloads (Handouts/Worksheets)

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Books

• A Commentary on the Book of Genesis Part 1 From Adam to Noah – Professor Umberto Cassuto’s last publish text on Genesis
• A Commentary on the Book of Genesis Part 2 From Noah to Abraham – Professor Umberto Cassuto text last published text on Genesis
• Covenant & Conversation Commentary – The Late Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ last published commentary on the Torah.
• The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon – One of the most used Hebrew and English Lexicons among serious Bible students.
• Pentateuch & Haftorahs, By. Dr. J.H. Hertz – The Late Chief Rabbi of the British Empire was renowned for his writings and teaches. By many he is considered a must read. In the Preface Dr. Hertz calls this “a People’s Commentary”.