Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:9 in other translations
| BSB | This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. |
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| WEB | This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God. |
| ASV | These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God. |
| YLT | These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually. |
| DARBY | This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God. |
| BBE | These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God. |
| Webster | These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. |
What does Genesis 6:9 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 6:8-11
Noah did not find favour in the eyes of men; they hated and persecuted him, because both by his life and preaching he condemned the world: but he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and this made him more truly honourable than the men of renown. Let this be our chief desire, let us labour that we may be accepted of him. When the rest of the world was wicked, Noah kept his integrity. God's good-will towards Noah…
Genesis 6:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 6:9
- Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
- Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
- Galatians 3:11
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
- Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
- 2 Peter 2:5
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
- Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
- Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
- Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Ezekiel 14:14
Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.
- Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
- 1 Peter 2:5
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2:4; 5:1; 10:1
just.
7:1; Job 12:4; Pr 4:18; Ec 7:20; Eze 14:14,20; Hab 2:4; Lu 2:25
Lu 23:50; Ac 10:22; Ro 1:17; Ga 3:11; Heb 11:7; 2Pe 2:5
perfect. or, upright.
2Ch 15:17; 25:2; Job 1:1,8; Ps 37:37; Lu 1:6; Php 3:9-15
and Noah.
5:22,24; 17:1; 48:15; 1Ki 3:6; Lu 1:6; 1Pe 2:5
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Context
- Genesis 6:8
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
- Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 6:10
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Estas son las generaciones de Noé: Noé, varón justo, perfecto fué en sus generaciones; con Dios caminó Noé. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | *Ce sont ici les générations de Noé: Noé était un homme juste; il était parfait parmi ceux de son temps; Noé marchait avec Dieu. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Dies ist die Geschichte Noahs: Noah war ein gerechter, vollkommener Mann unter seinen Zeitgenossen; Noah wandelte mit Gott. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Hæ sunt generationes Noë: Noë vir justus atque perfectus fuit in generationibus suis; cum Deo ambulavit. |