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Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Genesis 9

Gen 9:1-19

Gen 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

The Noahic Covenant. The elements are:

  1. The relation of man to the earth under the Adamic Covenant is confirmed (Genesis 8:21).
  2. The order of nature is confirmed (Genesis 8:22).
  3. Human government is established (Genesis 9:1-6).
  4. Earth is secured against another universal judgment by water (Genesis 8:21; 9:11).
  5. A prophetic declaration is made that from Ham will descend an inferior and servile posterity (Genesis 9:24, 25).
  6. A prophetic declaration is made that Shem will have a peculiar relation to Jehovah (Genesis 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 (Genesis 9:27). Government, science, and art, speaking broadly, are and have been Japhetic, so that history is the indisputable record of the exact fulfilment of these declarations.

See, for the other seven covenants:

Gen 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Kingdom (O.T.) Exo 3:1-10. (Gen 1:26; Zec 12:8).

Gen 9:8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

See Scofield Genesis 8:21, note; 9:1, note.

Gen 9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

bow

The bow is not said to have come into existence at this time, but only to have been here invested with the character of a sign. CF. Exodus 31:13. Typically, the bow, seen upon the storm clouds of judgment (Genesis 7:11), has been thought to speak of the cross where judgment, never to be repeated has been visted upon the believer's sins (Galatians 3:10-14; Hebrews 10:14-18).

Gen 9:20-23—Parenthetical: the shame of Noah and the sin of Ham.

Gen 9:24-27—Conclusion of Noahic Covenant: the prophetic declaration.

Gen 9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Cursed

See Scofield Genesis 9:1, note subdiv. 5-7 above.

Gen 9:28-29—The family of Noah (Gen 9:28 - 10:32).

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