| Genesis 9:20 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Noah, a farmer, was the first person to plant a vineyard.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: |
| ASV: | And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard: |
| BBE: | In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden. |
| DBY: | And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard. |
| ERV: | And Noah began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyard: |
| JPS: | And Noah the husbandman began, and planted a vineyard. |
| WBS: | And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: |
| WEB: | Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. |
| YLT: | And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard, |
| Genesis 9:20 Cross References |
| XREF: | Genesis 9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
Genesis 9:21 He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 9:20 And Noah began to be an husbandman - Heb. a man of the earth, a man dealing in the earth, that kept ground in his hand and occupied it. Sometime after his departure out of the ark he returned to his old employment, from which he had been diverted by the building of the ark first, and probably after by the building an house for himself and family. And he planted a vineyard - And when he had gathered his vintage, probably he appointed a day of mirth and feasting in his family, and had his sons and their children with him, to rejoice with him in the increase of his house, as well as in the increase of his vineyard; and we may suppose he prefaced his feast with a sacrifice to the honour of God. If that was omitted, 'twas just with God to leave him to himself, to end with the beasts that did not begin with God: but we charitably hope he did. And perhaps he appointed this feast with design in the close of it to bless his sons, as Isaac, Gen 27:3,4. That I may eat, and that my soul may bless thee. |
| MHC: | 9:18-23 The drunkenness of Noah is recorded in the Bible, with that fairness which is found only in the Scripture, as a case and proof of human weakness and imperfection, even though he may have been surprised into the sin; and to show that the best of men cannot stand upright, unless they depend upon Divine grace, and are upheld thereby. Ham appears to have been a bad man, and probably rejoiced to find his father in an unbecoming situation. It was said of Noah, that he was perfect in his generations, ch. |
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