Genesis 6:9
New International Version
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.

New Living Translation
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God.

English Standard Version
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

Berean Standard Bible
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

King James Bible
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

New King James Version
This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

New American Standard Bible
These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

NASB 1995
These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

NASB 1977
These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

Legacy Standard Bible
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among those in his generations; Noah walked with God.

Amplified Bible
These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God.

Christian Standard Bible
These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

American Standard Version
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And these are the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous and perfect man in his generations and Noah pleased God.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noe was well-pleasing to God.

Contemporary English Version
and this is the story about him. Noah was the only person who lived right and obeyed God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.

English Revised Version
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is the account of Noah and his descendants. Noah had God's approval and was a man of integrity among the people of his time. He walked with God.

International Standard Version
These are the family records of Noah: Noah was a righteous man. Blameless during his times, Noah communed with God.

JPS Tanakh 1917
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in his generations a man righteous and wholehearted; Noah walked with God.

Literal Standard Version
These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; he has been perfect among his generations; Noah has habitually walked with God.

Majority Standard Bible
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

New American Bible
These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man and blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

NET Bible
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

New Revised Standard Version
These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

New Heart English Bible
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Webster's Bible Translation
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Noah's Favor with God
8Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD. 9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. 10And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.…

Cross References
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

2 Peter 2:5
if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

Genesis 5:22
And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

Genesis 6:10
And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.


Treasury of Scripture

These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

These.

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,

Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

just.

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 12:4
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

perfect.

2 Chronicles 15:17
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

2 Chronicles 25:2
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

Job 1:1,8
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…

and Noah.

Genesis 5:22,24
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: …

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 48:15
And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

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Genesis 6
1. The wickedness of the world, which provoked God's wrath.
8. Noah finds grace.
9. His family line
14. The order, form, dimensions, and building of the ark.














THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH (Genesis 6:9; Genesis 9:28).

(9) Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations.--"Just" is, literally, righteous, one whose actions were sufficiently upright to exempt him from the punishment inflicted upon the rest of mankind. "Perfect" means sound, healthy, and conveys no idea of sinlessness. It answers to the Latin integer, whence our word integrity, and not to perfectus.

Generations (doroth) is not the same word as at the beginning of the verse (toldoth), but simply means his contemporaries. And this he was because--

Noah walked with God.--See Note on Genesis 5:22.

Verse 9. - These are the generations of Noah. "Novi capitis initium = "haec est historia Noachi (Rosenmüller; cf. Genesis 5:1). Noah (vide Genesis 5:29) was a just man. צַדִּיק: not of spotless innocence (Knobel); but upright, honest, virtuous, pious (vir probus); from צָדַּק, to be straight, hence to be just; Piel to render just or righteous (Eccl. Lat., justificare), to declare any one just or innocent (Gesenius); better "justified" or declared righteous, being derived from the Piel form of the verb (Furst). "Evidently the righteousness here meant is that which represents him as justified in view of the judgment of the Flood, by reason of his faith, Hebrews 11:7" (Lange). "To be just is to be right in point of law, and thereby entitled to all the blessings of the acquitted and justified. When applied to the guilty this epithet implies pardon of sin among other benefits of grace" (Murphy). And perfect. תָּמִים: complete, whole (τέλειος, integer); i.e. perfect in the sense not of sinlessness, but of moral integrity (Gesenius, Calvin). It describes "completeness of parts rather than of degrees in the renewed character" (Bush). "The just is the right in law, the perfect is the tested in holiness" (Murphy). If, however, the term is equivalent to the τελείωσις of the Christian system (1 Corinthians 2:6; Hebrews 7:11), it denotes that complete readjustment of the being of a sinful man to the law of God, both legally and morally, which is effected by the whole work of Christ for man and in man; it is "the establishment of complete, unclouded, and enduring communion with God, and the full realization of a state of peace with him which, founded on a true and ever valid remission of sins, has for its consummation eternal glory" (Delitzsch on Hebrews 7:11). In his generations. בְּדְֹּרֹתַיו, from דּוּר, to go in a circle; hence a circuit of years; an age or generation (generatio, seeulum) of men. The clause marks not simply the sphere of Noah's virtue, among his contemporaries, or only the duration of his piety, throughout his lifetime, but likewise the constancy of his religion, which, when surrounded by the filth of iniquity on every side, contracted no contagion (Calvin). "It is probable, moreover, that he was of pure descent, and in that respect also distinguished from his contemporaries, who were the offspring of promiscuous marriages between the godly and the ungodly" (Murphy). And Noah walked with God. The special form in which his just and perfect character revealed itself amongst his sinful contemporaries. For the import of the phrase see on Genesis 5:22. Noah was also a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5), and probably announced to the wicked age in which -he lived the coming of the Flood (Hebrews 11:7).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
This [is]
אֵ֚לֶּה (’êl·leh)
Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

the account
תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת (tō·wl·ḏōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 8435: Descent, family, history

of Noah.
נֹ֔חַ (nō·aḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5146: Noah -- 'rest', patriarch who survived the flood

Noah
נֹ֗חַ (nō·aḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5146: Noah -- 'rest', patriarch who survived the flood

was
הָיָ֖ה (hā·yāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a righteous man,
צַדִּ֛יק (ṣad·dîq)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6662: Just, righteous

blameless
תָּמִ֥ים (tā·mîm)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 8549: Entire, integrity, truth

in his generation;
בְּדֹֽרֹתָ֑יו (bə·ḏō·rō·ṯāw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1755: A revolution of time, an age, generation, a dwelling

Noah
נֹֽחַ׃ (nō·aḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5146: Noah -- 'rest', patriarch who survived the flood

walked
הִֽתְהַלֶּךְ־ (hiṯ·hal·leḵ-)
Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

with
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

God.
הָֽאֱלֹהִ֖ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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