9:20 Noah, a man of the soil, 2 began to plant a vineyard. 3
1 tn The verb is the Piel preterite of שָׁלַח (shalakh), forming a wordplay with the use of the same verb (in the Qal stem) in v. 22: To prevent the man’s “sending out” his hand, the
2 sn The epithet a man of the soil indicates that Noah was a farmer.
3 tn Or “Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard”; Heb “and Noah, a man of the ground, began and he planted a vineyard.”