Genesis 9
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Lutheran reading notes
In Genesis chapter 9, the story continues to develop the theme of origins of creation, humanity, covenant, and the patriarchs. Lutheran interpretation often highlights how the events reveal humanity’s need for God’s grace and the reliability of God's promises. The chapter illustrates both the reality of human weakness and the faithfulness of God who works through history.
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And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis 9:1 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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, upon all that moveth {upon} the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Genesis 9:2 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Genesis 9:3 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But flesh with the life thereof, {which is} the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Genesis 9:4 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Genesis 9:5 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Genesis 9:6 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Genesis 9:7 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis 9:8 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Genesis 9:9 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And with every living creature that {is} with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Genesis 9:10 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Genesis 9:11 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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:
Genesis 9:12 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis 9:13 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
Genesis 9:14 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And 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.
Genesis 9:15 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Genesis 9:16 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Genesis 9:17 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham {is} the father of Canaan. {Canaan: Heb. Chenaan}
Genesis 9:18 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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These {are} the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
Genesis 9:19 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Noah began {to be} an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
Genesis 9:20 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis 9:21 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
Genesis 9:22 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Genesis 9:23 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Genesis 9:24 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he said, Cursed {be} Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Genesis 9:25 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he said, Blessed {be} the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. {his servant: or, servant to them}
Genesis 9:26 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. {enlarge: or, persuade}
Genesis 9:27 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
Genesis 9:28 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
Genesis 9:29 highlights creation, fall, covenant beginnings with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.