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Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. <a href="/nlt/genesis/6.htm">New Living Translation</a> This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God. <a href="/esv/genesis/6.htm">English Standard Version</a> These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. <a href="/bsb/genesis/6.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. <a href="/kjv/genesis/6.htm">King James Bible</a> These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. <a href="/nkjv/genesis/6.htm">New King James Version</a> This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. <a href="/nasb_/genesis/6.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. <a href="/nasb/genesis/6.htm">NASB 1995</a> These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. <a href="/nasb77/genesis/6.htm">NASB 1977 </a> These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. <a href="/lsb/genesis/6.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among those in his generations; Noah walked with God. <a href="/amp/genesis/6.htm">Amplified Bible</a> These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God. <a href="/csb/genesis/6.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God. <a href="/hcsb/genesis/6.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God. <a href="/asv/genesis/6.htm">American Standard Version</a> These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God. <a href="/cev/genesis/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> and this is the story about him. Noah was the only person who lived right and obeyed God. <a href="/erv/genesis/6.htm">English Revised Version</a> These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God. <a href="/gwt/genesis/6.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> This is the account of Noah and his descendants. Noah had God's approval and was a man of integrity among the people of his time. He walked with God. <a href="/isv/genesis/6.htm">International Standard Version</a> These are the family records of Noah: Noah was a righteous man. Blameless during his times, Noah communed with God. <a href="/net/genesis/6.htm">NET Bible</a> This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God. <a href="/nheb/genesis/6.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God. <a href="/wbt/genesis/6.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.<div class="vheading2">Majority Text Translations</div><a href="/msb/genesis/6.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. <a href="/web/genesis/6.htm">World English Bible</a> This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/genesis/6.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; he has been perfect among his generations; Noah has habitually walked with God. <a href="/ylt/genesis/6.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually. <a href="/slt/genesis/6.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> These the generations of Noah; a just man, and was complete in his generations: Noah walked with God.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/genesis/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God. <a href="/cpdv/genesis/6.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man, and yet he was predominate among his generations, for he walked with God. <a href="/nabre/genesis/6.htm">New American Bible</a> These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man and blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. <a href="/nrsvce/genesis/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/genesis/6.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and innocent in his days, and God was pleased with Noah. <a href="/hpbt/genesis/6.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And these are the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous and perfect man in his generations and Noah pleased God.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/genesis/6.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in his generations a man righteous and wholehearted; Noah walked with God. <a href="/sep/genesis/6.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noe was well-pleasing to God. <a href="/parallel/genesis/6-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ehevn8iSgc?start=1322" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/genesis/6.htm">Noah's Favor with God</a> 8Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD. 9<a href="/hebrew/428.htm" title="428: ’êl·leh (Pro-cp) -- These. Prolonged from 'el; these or those.">This is</a> <a href="/hebrew/8435.htm" title="8435: tō·wl·ḏōṯ (N-fpc) -- Generations. Or toldah; from yalad; descent, i.e. Family; history.">the account</a> <a href="/hebrew/5146.htm" title="5146: nō·aḥ (N-proper-ms) -- Rest, patriarch who survived the flood. The same as nuwach; rest; Noach, the patriarch of the flood.">of Noah.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5146.htm" title="5146: nō·aḥ (N-proper-ms) -- Rest, patriarch who survived the flood. The same as nuwach; rest; Noach, the patriarch of the flood.">Noah</a> <a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: ’îš (N-ms) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: hā·yāh (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">was</a> <a href="/hebrew/6662.htm" title="6662: ṣad·dîq (Adj-ms) -- Just, righteous. From tsadaq; just.">a righteous man,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8549.htm" title="8549: tā·mîm (Adj-ms) -- Complete, sound. From tamam; entire; also integrity, truth.">blameless</a> <a href="/hebrew/1755.htm" title="1755: bə·ḏō·rō·ṯāw (Prep-b:: N-mpc:: 3ms) -- Period, generation, dwelling. Or dor; from duwr; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. An age or generation; also a dwelling.">in his generation;</a> <a href="/hebrew/5146.htm" title="5146: nō·aḥ (N-proper-ms) -- Rest, patriarch who survived the flood. The same as nuwach; rest; Noach, the patriarch of the flood.">Noah</a> <a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: hiṯ·hal·leḵ- (V-Hitpael-Perf-3ms) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">walked</a> <a href="/hebrew/854.htm" title="854: ’eṯ- (Prep) -- With (denoting proximity). Probably from 'anah; properly, nearness, near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc.">with</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">God.</a> 10And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm">Hebrews 11:7</a> By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. <a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm">2 Peter 2:5</a> if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight; <a href="/ezekiel/14-14.htm">Ezekiel 14:14</a> then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD. <a href="/ezekiel/14-20.htm">Ezekiel 14:20</a> then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves. <a href="/matthew/24-37.htm">Matthew 24:37-39</a> As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. / For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. / And they were oblivious until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. <a href="/luke/17-26.htm">Luke 17:26-27</a> Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man: / People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. <a href="/1_peter/3-20.htm">1 Peter 3:20</a> who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. <a href="/job/1-1.htm">Job 1:1</a> There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil. <a href="/job/1-8.htm">Job 1:8</a> Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.” <a href="/job/2-3.htm">Job 2:3</a> Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.” <a href="/genesis/5-22.htm">Genesis 5:22-24</a> And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. / So Enoch lived a total of 365 years. / Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away. <a href="/genesis/7-1.htm">Genesis 7:1</a> Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. <a href="/genesis/17-1.htm">Genesis 17:1</a> When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless. <a href="/genesis/18-19.htm">Genesis 18:19</a> For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.” <a href="/genesis/19-29.htm">Genesis 19:29</a> So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.These.<a href="/genesis/2-4.htm">Genesis 2:4</a> These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,<a href="/genesis/5-1.htm">Genesis 5:1</a> This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;<a href="/genesis/10-1.htm">Genesis 10:1</a> Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.just.<a href="/genesis/7-1.htm">Genesis 7:1</a> And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.<a href="/job/12-4.htm">Job 12:4</a> I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.<a href="/proverbs/4-18.htm">Proverbs 4:18</a> But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.perfect.<a href="/2_chronicles/15-17.htm">2 Chronicles 15:17</a> But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.<a href="/2_chronicles/25-2.htm">2 Chronicles 25:2</a> And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.<a href="/job/1-1.htm">Job 1:1,8</a> There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil… and Noah.<a href="/genesis/5-22.htm">Genesis 5:22,24</a> And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: … <a href="/genesis/17-1.htm">Genesis 17:1</a> And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.<a href="/genesis/48-15.htm">Genesis 48:15</a> And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/5-1.htm">Account</a> <a href="/genesis/3-8.htm">Amongst</a> <a href="/genesis/5-1.htm">Births</a> <a href="/revelation/14-5.htm">Blameless</a> <a href="/jude/1-14.htm">Generation</a> <a href="/genesis/5-1.htm">Generations</a> <a href="/genesis/5-24.htm">Habitually</a> <a href="/genesis/2-4.htm">History</a> <a href="/genesis/6-8.htm">Noah</a> <a href="/revelation/3-2.htm">Perfect</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-1.htm">Records</a> <a href="/revelation/22-11.htm">Righteous</a> <a href="/genesis/6-5.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/genesis/6-5.htm">Time</a> <a href="/revelation/22-11.htm">Upright</a> <a href="/genesis/5-24.htm">Walked</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-19.htm">Wholehearted</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/8-21.htm">Account</a> <a href="/genesis/23-9.htm">Amongst</a> <a href="/genesis/10-1.htm">Births</a> <a href="/genesis/17-1.htm">Blameless</a> <a href="/genesis/7-1.htm">Generation</a> <a href="/genesis/9-12.htm">Generations</a> <a href="/genesis/17-1.htm">Habitually</a> <a href="/genesis/10-1.htm">History</a> <a href="/genesis/6-10.htm">Noah</a> <a href="/genesis/17-1.htm">Perfect</a> <a href="/genesis/10-1.htm">Records</a> <a href="/genesis/7-1.htm">Righteous</a> <a href="/genesis/15-16.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/genesis/7-1.htm">Time</a> <a href="/genesis/7-1.htm">Upright</a> <a href="/genesis/9-23.htm">Walked</a> <a href="/genesis/17-1.htm">Wholehearted</a><div class="vheading2">Genesis 6</div>1. <a href="/genesis/6-1.htm">The wickedness of the world, which provoked God's wrath.</a> 8. <a href="/genesis/6-8.htm">Noah finds grace.</a> 9. <a href="/genesis/6-9.htm">His family line</a> 14. <a href="/genesis/6-14.htm">The order, form, dimensions, and building of the ark.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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This phrase introduces a new section in Genesis, often referred to as a "toledot," which means "generations" or "account." It marks a transition in the narrative, focusing on Noah and his lineage. The structure of Genesis is divided into these sections, each beginning with a similar phrase, indicating a new chapter in the unfolding story of humanity. Noah's account is significant as it leads to the story of the Flood, a pivotal event in biblical history.Noah was a righteous man, The term "righteous" in this context implies that Noah lived in accordance with God's standards. In a time of widespread corruption and violence, Noah's righteousness set him apart. This righteousness is not just moral uprightness but also a relational fidelity to God. Noah's life exemplifies the principle found in <a href="/habakkuk/2-4.htm">Habakkuk 2:4</a>, "the righteous will live by his faith," which is echoed in the New Testament (<a href="/romans/1-17.htm">Romans 1:17</a>).blameless in his generation; "Blameless" suggests integrity and completeness in character. In a corrupt generation, Noah's blamelessness highlights his distinctiveness. This does not imply sinlessness but rather a wholehearted devotion to God. The Hebrew word for "generation" can also mean "age" or "time," emphasizing the contrast between Noah and the prevailing culture. This anticipates the call for believers to be "blameless and pure" in a "crooked and depraved generation" (<a href="/philippians/2-15.htm">Philippians 2:15</a>).Noah walked with God. Walking with God indicates a close, personal relationship with the Creator, characterized by faith and obedience. This phrase is also used to describe Enoch in <a href="/genesis/5-24.htm">Genesis 5:24</a>, suggesting a continuity of faithful individuals amidst a fallen world. Walking with God implies ongoing fellowship and alignment with His will, a theme that resonates throughout Scripture, as seen in <a href="/micah/6-8.htm">Micah 6:8</a>, which calls for walking humbly with God. Noah's walk with God prefigures the life of Jesus Christ, who perfectly walked in obedience to the Father.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/n/noah.htm">Noah</a> A central figure in the Genesis account, Noah is described as a righteous and blameless man who walked with God. His life and actions are pivotal in the account of the flood. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_generation_of_noah.htm">The Generation of Noah</a> This refers to the people living during Noah's time, characterized by widespread corruption and violence, contrasting with Noah's righteousness. 3. <a href="/topical/w/walking_with_god.htm">Walking with God</a> This phrase indicates a close, personal relationship with God, suggesting a life lived in accordance with God's will and purposes.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/r/righteousness_in_a_corrupt_world.htm">Righteousness in a Corrupt World</a> Noah's life exemplifies how one can live righteously even when surrounded by corruption. His example encourages believers to maintain integrity and faithfulness regardless of societal pressures. <a href="/topical/b/blamelessness_and_integrity.htm">Blamelessness and Integrity</a> The Hebrew word for "blameless" (tamim) suggests completeness or wholeness. Believers are called to live lives of integrity, reflecting God's holiness in all areas. <a href="/topical/w/walking_with_god.htm">Walking with God</a> This phrase implies an ongoing, daily relationship with God. It challenges believers to cultivate a consistent spiritual walk through prayer, scripture study, and obedience. <a href="/topical/f/faith_and_obedience.htm">Faith and Obedience</a> Noah's faith was demonstrated through his obedience to God's commands, even when they seemed daunting or illogical. This teaches that true faith is active and results in obedience. <a href="/topical/l/legacy_of_faith.htm">Legacy of Faith</a> Noah's life left a legacy of faith for future generations. Believers are encouraged to consider the impact of their faith on their families and communities.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_genesis_6.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Genesis 6</a> <a href="/q/what_is_narrative_criticism.htm">What defines narrative criticism in literary analysis?</a> <a href="/q/what's_the_flood_tale_in_gilgamesh.htm">What is the flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_'charis'_mean_in_english.htm">Who is the Preacher of Righteousness?</a> <a href="/q/how_can_one_live_for_righteousness.htm">How can one live for righteousness?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/6.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH (<a href="/genesis/6-9.htm" title="These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.">Genesis 6:9</a>; <a href="/genesis/9-28.htm" title="And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.">Genesis 9:28</a>).(9) Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations.--"Just" is, literally, righteous, one whose actions were sufficiently upright to exempt him from the punishment inflicted upon the rest of mankind. "Perfect" means sound, healthy, and conveys no idea of sinlessness. It answers to the Latin integer, whence our word integrity, and not to perfectus.Generations (doroth) is not the same word as at the beginning of the verse (toldoth), but simply means his contemporaries. And this he was because--Noah walked with God.--See Note on <a href="/genesis/5-22.htm" title="And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:">Genesis 5:22</a>.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/6.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 9. - These are the generations of Noah. "Novi capitis initium = "haec est historia Noachi (Rosenmüller; cf. <a href="/genesis/5-1.htm">Genesis 5:1</a>). Noah (vide Genesis 5:29) was a just man. צַדִּיק: not of spotless innocence (Knobel); but upright, honest, virtuous, pious (vir probus); from צָדַּק, to be straight, hence to be just; Piel to render just or righteous (Eccl. Lat., justificare), to declare any one just or innocent (Gesenius); better "justified" or declared righteous, being derived from the Piel form of the verb (Furst). "Evidently the righteousness here meant is that which represents him as justified in view of the judgment of the Flood, by reason of his faith, <a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm">Hebrews 11:7</a>" (Lange). "To be just is to be right in point of law, and thereby entitled to all the blessings of the acquitted and justified. When applied to the guilty this epithet implies pardon of sin among other benefits of grace" (Murphy). And perfect. תָּמִים: complete, whole (τέλειος, integer); i.e. perfect in the sense not of sinlessness, but of moral integrity (Gesenius, Calvin). It describes "completeness of parts rather than of degrees in the renewed character" (Bush). "The just is the right in law, the perfect is the tested in holiness" (Murphy). If, however, the term is equivalent to the τελείωσις of the Christian system (<a href="/1_corinthians/2-6.htm">1 Corinthians 2:6</a>; <a href="/hebrews/7-11.htm">Hebrews 7:11</a>), it denotes that complete readjustment of the being of a sinful man to the law of God, both legally and morally, which is effected by the whole work of Christ for man and in man; it is "the establishment of complete, unclouded, and enduring communion with God, and the full realization of a state of peace with him which, founded on a true and ever valid remission of sins, has for its consummation eternal glory" (Delitzsch on <a href="/hebrews/7-11.htm">Hebrews 7:11</a>). In his generations. בְּדְֹּרֹתַיו, from דּוּר, to go in a circle; hence a circuit of years; an age or generation (generatio, seeulum) of men. The clause marks not simply the sphere of Noah's virtue, among his contemporaries, or only the duration of his piety, throughout his lifetime, but likewise the constancy of his religion, which, when surrounded by the filth of iniquity on every side, contracted no contagion (Calvin). "It is probable, moreover, that he was of pure descent, and in that respect also distinguished from his contemporaries, who were the offspring of promiscuous marriages between the godly and the ungodly" (Murphy). And Noah walked with God. The special form in which his just and perfect character revealed itself amongst his sinful contemporaries. For the import of the phrase see on Genesis 5:22. Noah was also a preacher of righteousness (<a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm">2 Peter 2:5</a>), and probably announced to the wicked age in which -he lived the coming of the Flood (<a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm">Hebrews 11:7</a>). <a href="/commentaries/genesis/6-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>This [is] אֵ֚לֶּה (’êl·leh) Pronoun - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_428.htm">Strong's 428: </a> These, those the account תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת (tō·wl·ḏōṯ) Noun - feminine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8435.htm">Strong's 8435: </a> Descent, family, history of Noah. נֹ֔חַ (nō·aḥ) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5146.htm">Strong's 5146: </a> Noah -- 'rest', patriarch who survived the flood Noah נֹ֗חַ (nō·aḥ) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5146.htm">Strong's 5146: </a> Noah -- 'rest', patriarch who survived the flood was הָיָ֖ה (hā·yāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be a righteous man, צַדִּ֛יק (ṣad·dîq) Adjective - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6662.htm">Strong's 6662: </a> Just, righteous blameless תָּמִ֥ים (tā·mîm) Adjective - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8549.htm">Strong's 8549: </a> Entire, integrity, truth in his generation; בְּדֹֽרֹתָ֑יו (bə·ḏō·rō·ṯāw) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1755.htm">Strong's 1755: </a> A revolution of time, an age, generation, a dwelling Noah נֹֽחַ׃ (nō·aḥ) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5146.htm">Strong's 5146: </a> Noah -- 'rest', patriarch who survived the flood walked הִֽתְהַלֶּךְ־ (hiṯ·hal·leḵ-) Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> To go, come, walk with אֶת־ (’eṯ-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_854.htm">Strong's 854: </a> Nearness, near, with, by, at, among God. הָֽאֱלֹהִ֖ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/6-9.htm">Genesis 6:9 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/genesis/6-9.htm">Genesis 6:9 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/genesis/6-9.htm">Genesis 6:9 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/genesis/6-9.htm">Genesis 6:9 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/genesis/6-9.htm">Genesis 6:9 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/6-9.htm">Genesis 6:9 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/6-9.htm">Genesis 6:9 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/6-9.htm">Genesis 6:9 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/6-9.htm">Genesis 6:9 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/genesis/6-9.htm">Genesis 6:9 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/genesis/6-9.htm">OT Law: Genesis 6:9 This is the history of the generations (Gen. 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