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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:5

And surely . Again the conjunction אַךְ introduces a restriction. The blood of beasts might without fear be shed for necessary uses, but the blood of man was holy and inviolable. Following the LXX . ( και Ì γα Ì ρ ), Jerome, Pererius, Mercerus, Calvin, Poole, Willet give a causal sense to the conjunction, as if it supplied the reason of' the foregoing restriction—a sense which, according to Furst ('Hebrews Lex.,' sub nom .) it sometimes, though rarely, has; as in 2 Kings... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:6

Whoso sheddeth . Literally, he shedding, i.e. willfully and unwarrantably; and not simply accidentally, for which kind of manslaughter the law afterwards provided ( vide Numbers 35:11 ); or judicially, for that is commanded by the present statute. Man's blood . Literally, blood of the man, human blood. By man . Not openly and directly by God, but by man himself, acting of course as God's instrument and agent—an instruction which involved the setting up of the magisterial... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:7

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein . Vide on Genesis 9:1 . HOMILETICS read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:8

And God spake —in continuation of the preceding discourse— unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying . read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:8-17

The new Noachic covenant established. I. It is a COVENANT OF LIFE . It embraces all the posterity of Noah, i.e. it is— 1. The new foundation on which humanity rests. 2. It passes through man to all flesh, to all living creatures. 3. The sign of it, the rainbow in the cloud, is also the emblem of the salvation which may be said to be typified in the deliverance of Noah and his family. 4. The background is the same element wherewith the world was destroyed,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:9

And I, behold, I establish —literally, am causing to rise up or stand ; α ̓ νι ì στημι ( LXX .)— my covenant (cf. Genesis 6:18 ) with you, and with your seed after you. I .e. the covenant contemplated all subsequent posterity in its provisions, and, along with the human family, the entire animal creation. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:10

And with every living creature —literally, every soul (or breathing thing) that liveth, a generic designation of which the particulars are now specified— that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth —literally, in fowl, &c.; i.e. belonging to these classes of animals (cf. Genesis 1:25 , Genesis 1:30 ; Genesis 6:20 ; Genesis 8:17 ) with you; from all that go out of the ark ,—not necessarily implying ('Speaker's Commentary,' Murphy),... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:11

And I will establish my covenant with you . Not form it for the first time, as if no such covenant had existed in antediluvian times (Knobel); but cause it to stand or permanently establish it, so that it shall no more be-in danger of being overthrown, as it recently has been. The word "my" points to a covenant already in existence, though not formally mentioned until the time of Noah ( Genesis 6:18 ). The promise of the woman's seed, which formed the substance of the covenant during the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:12

And God said, This is the token — אוֹת ( vide Genesis 1:14 ; Genesis 4:15 )— of the covenant which I make —literally, am giving (cf. Genesis 17:2 )— between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations . Le'doroth ( vide Genesis 6:9 ); 'olam (from 'alam , to hide, to conceal), pr. that which is hidden ; hence, specially, time of which either the beginning or the end is uncertain or undefined, the duration being usually... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:13

I do set . Literally, I have given, or placed, an indication that the atmospheric phenomenon referred to had already frequently appeared (Syriac, Arabic, Aben Ezra, Chrysostom, Calvin, Willet, Murphy, Wordsworth, Kalisch, Lange). The contrary opinion has been maintained that it now for the first time appeared (Bush, Keil, Delitzsch), or at least that the historian thought so (Knobel); but unless there had been no rain, or the laws of light and the atmospheric conditions of the earth... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 9:5

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