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A Return to Normalcy
Commentators clarify that Noah 'began to be a husbandman' not as a new career, but as a return to the noble and necessary work of cultivating the earth after the flood. Having been a farmer before, he resumed his labor, demonstrating a return to normalcy and stewardship in the new world.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 9:18–29
18th Century
Theologian
- כנען kena‘an — “Kena‘an, bowed down.”
- נפץ nāpats — “break, scatter, spread.” פוּץ p…
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 9:20–21
19th Century
Bishop
Noah began to be an husbandman. —Rather, Noah, being a husbandman (Heb., a man of the adâmâh), began to plant a vineyard. Noah ha…
John Calvin
On Genesis 9:20
16th Century
Theologian
And Noah began to be an husbandman. I do not interpret these words to mean that he then, for the first time, began to give his attention t…
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John Gill
On Genesis 9:20
17th Century
Pastor
And Noah began to be an husbandman
Or "a man of the earth" F3 , not lord of it, as Jarchi, though he was,…
Matthew Henry
On Genesis 9:18–23
17th Century
Minister
The drunkenness of Noah is recorded in the Bible with that fairness found only in Scripture. It serves as a case and proof of human weakness and im…