Genesis Chapter 9 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 9:20

And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
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BBE Genesis 9:20

In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.
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DARBY Genesis 9:20

And Noah began [to be] a husbandman, and planted a vineyard.
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KJV Genesis 9:20

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
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WBT Genesis 9:20

And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
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WEB Genesis 9:20

Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
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YLT Genesis 9:20

And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - And Noah began to be an husbandman. Literally, a man of the ground. Vir terror (Vulgate); ἄνθρωπος γεωργὸς γῆς (LXX.); Chald., נְּבַר פָלַח בְּאַרְעָא = vir co-lens terram; agriculturae dediturus. Cf. Joshua 5:4, "a man of war;" 2 Samuel 16:7, "a man of blood;" Genesis 46:32, "a man of cattle;" Exodus 4:10, "a man of words." And he planted a vineyard. So Murphy, Wordsworth, Kalisch. Keil, Delitzsch, and Lange regard ish ha Adamah, with the art., as in apposition to Noah, and read, "And Noah, the husbandman, began and planted a vineyard," i.e. caepit plantare (cf. Gesenius, 'Gram.,' 142, 3; Glass, Sacrae Philologiae, lib. 3. tr. 3. can. 34). Neither interpretation presupposes that husbandry and vine cultivation were now practiced for the first time. That Armenia is a wine-growing country is testified by Xenophon ('Anab.,' 4:4, 9). That the vine was abundantly cultivated in Egypt is evident from representations on the monuments, as well as from Scriptural allusions. The Egyptians say that Osiris, the Greeks that Dionysus, the Romans that Saturn, first taught men the cultivation of the tree and the use of its fruit.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20, 21) Noah began to be an husbandman.--Rather, Noah, being a husbandman (Heb., a man of the adamah), began to plant a vineyard. Noah had always been a husbandman: it was the cultivation of the vine, still abundant in Armenia, that was new. Scarcely aware, perhaps, of the intoxicating qualities of the juice which he had allowed to ferment, he drank to excess, and became the first example of the shameful effects of intemperance.