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Genesis 9:28 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood. "
Genesis 9:28
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26 He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”
28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
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Here we see, first, how God lengthened Noah’s life. Noah lived 950 years, twenty more than Adam and only nineteen less than Methuselah. This long life was another reward for his special godliness, and it was also a great blessing to the world. No doubt he kept preaching righteousness, and now he had the special help of speaking to his own children.
We also see how God brought Noah’s life to an end at last. Even though he lived a very long time, he still died. He likely saw many of his descendants die before him. Noah lived through two worlds, but since he was an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith, when he died he went to a better world than either of them.
From This Chapter
Genesis 9:1
"God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth."
Genesis 9:2
"The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand."
Genesis 9:3
"Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you."
Genesis 9:4
"But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat."
Genesis 9:5
"I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man."
Genesis 9:6
"Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image."
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