Genesis 9:1-29

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blessed <01288> [blessed.]

fruitful <06509> [Be.]

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moving thing <07431> [Every.]

green <03418> [even.]

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life <05315> [the life.]

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creature ..................... man <02416 0376> [every.]

punishment ......... punishment ........ punishment <03027> [and at.]

relative <0251> [brother.]

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human ..... humans .............. humankind <0120> [by.]

image <06754> [in.]

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confirm <06965> [And I.]

living <01320> [neither shall all.]

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remember <02142> [remember.]

waters <04325> [the waters.]

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perpetual <05769> [everlasting.]

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Shem <08035> [Shem.]

Ham ..... Ham <02526> [Ham.]

Canaan <03667> [Canaan. Heb. Chenaan.]

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<07969> [These.]

earth <0776> [and of.]

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<0376> [an husbandman.]

plant <05193> [planted.]

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drunk <07937> [and was.]

drank .......... uncovered <08354 01540> [and he.]

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Ham <02526> [Ham.]

told <05046> [told.]

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Cursed <0779> [Cursed.]

lowest of slaves <05650> [a servant.]

The devoted nations, which God destroyed before Israel, were descended from Canaan: and so were the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, who were at length subjugated with dreadful destruction by the Greeks and Romans. The Africans, who have been bought and sold like beasts, were also his posterity.

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Worthy <01288> [Blessed.]

Lord <03068> [the Lord.]

[Sem.]

slave <05650> [his servant. or, servant to them.]

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enlarge <06601> [enlarge. or, persuade. Japheth.]

Japheth denotes enlargement, and how wonderfully have his boundaries been enlarged; for not only Europe, but Asia Minor, part of Armenia, Iberia, the whole of the vast regions of Asia north of Taurus, and probably America, fell to the share of his posterity.

live <07931> [he shall dwell.]

These words may mean either that God or that Japheth shall dwell in the tents of Shem. In either sense the prophecy has been literally fulfilled.

live <07931> [dwell.]

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950 <08672> [A.M. 2006. B.C. 1998. nine.]

Genesis 9:2

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Genesis 18:26

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Genesis 22:4

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third <07992> [third.]

caught <07200> [saw.]

Genesis 24:14

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young woman <05291> [And let.]

chosen <03198> [she that.]

know <03045> [thereby.]

Genesis 24:22

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took <03947> [took.]

nose ring <05141> [earring. or, jewel for the forehead.]

From the word being in the singular number, it is not likely to have been an ear-ring, or a "jewel for the forehead," but "a jewel for the nose, a nose-ring," which is in use throughout Arabia and Persia, particularly among young women. It is very properly translated [epirrinon,] "an ornament for the nose," by Symmachus; and Sir John Chardin informs us, that "it is a custom in almost all the East, for the women to wear rings in their noses, in the left nostril, which is bored low down in the middle. These rings are of gold, and have commonly two pearls and one ruby between, placed in the ring. I never saw a girl or young woman in Arabia or in all Persia, who did not wear a ring after this manner in her nostril."

beka <01235> [of half.]

bracelets <06781> [bracelets.]

The word rendered "bracelet," from a root which signifies "to join or couple together," may imply whatever may clasp round the arms and legs; for rings and ornaments are worn round both by females in India and Persia. The small part of the leg, and the whole arm, from the shoulder to the wrist, are generally decorated in this way. As these were given to Rebekah for "her hands," it sufficiently distinguishes them from similar ornaments for the ankles.