20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
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The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? …
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-23)Here is, I. Noah’s family and employment. The names of his sons are again mentioned ( Gen. 9:18 , 19 ) as those from whom the whole earth was overspread, by which it appears that Noah, after the flood, had no more children: all the world came from these three. Note, God, when he pleases, can make a little one to become a thousand , and greatly increase the latter end of those whose beginning was s…
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