| Geneva Study Bible And God {a} blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. (a) God increased them with fruit, and declared to them his counsel as concerning the replenishing of the earth. Wesley's Notes 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons - He assured them of his good - will to them, and his gracious intentions concerning them. The first blessing is here renewed, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and repeated, Ge 9:7; for the race of mankind was as it were to begin again. By virtue of this blessing mankind was to be both multiplied and perpetuated upon earth; so that in a little time all the habitable parts of the earth should be more or less inhabited; and tho' one generation should pass away, yet another generation should come, so that the stream of the human race should be supplied with a constant succession, and run parallel with the current of time, 'till both be swallowed up in the ocean of eternity. Scofield Reference Notes [2] and said unto them The Noahic Covenant. The elements are: (1) The relation of man to the earth under the Adamic Covenant is confirmed See Scofield Note: "Gen 8:21" (2) The order of nature is confirmed (Gen 8.22) (3) Human government is established (Gen 9.1-6) (4) Earth is secured against another universal judgment by water Gen 8:21 9:11 (5) A prophetic declaration is made that from Ham will descend an inferior and servile posterity Gen 9:24,25. (6) A prophetic declaration is made that Shem will have a peculiar relation to Jehovah Gen 9:26,27. All divine revelation is through Semitic men, and Christ, after the flesh, descends from Shem. (7) A prophetic declaration is made that from Japheth will descend the "enlarged" races Gen 9:27. Government, science, and art, speaking broadly, are and have been Japhetic, Song that history is the indisputable record of the exact fulfilment of these declarations. See Scofield Note: "Gen 8.21" for the other seven covenants: EDENIC Gen 1:28 ADAMIC Gen 3:15 ABRAHAMIC Gen 15:18 MOSAIC Ex 19:25 PALESTINIAN Dt 30:3 DAVIDIC 2Sam 7:16 NEW Heb 8:8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary CHAPTER 9 Ge 9:1-7. Covenant. 1. And God blessed Noah-Here is republished the law of nature that was announced to Adam, consisting as it originally did of several parts. Be fruitful, &c.-The first part relates to the transmission of life, the original blessing being reannounced in the very same words in which it had been promised at first [Ge 1:28]. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 9:1-3 The blessing of God is the cause of our doing well. On him we depend, to him we should be thankful. Let us not forget the advantage and pleasure we have from the labour of beasts, and which their flesh affords. Nor ought we to be less thankful for the security we enjoy from the savage and hurtful beasts, through the fear of man which God has fixed deep in them. We see the fulfilment of this promise every day, and on every side. This grant of the animals for food fully warrants the use of them, but not the abuse of them by gluttony, still less by cruelty. We ought not to pain them needlessly whilst they live, nor when we take away their lives. | 
