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Genesis 9:1-2

Once again God gives man dominion over all other life on the earth, and with this renewed authority comes the implicit responsibility to tend and keep what was explicitly given to Adam. In this post-Flood world, God gives mankind a second chance to use and preserve the resources He had so abundantly provided. To that end Noah, after 120 years as a preacher and shipwright, took up farming and planted a vineyard (verse 20). We can assume, from what we know of human nature, that this attitude of stewardship did not pass to very many of his descendants.

Richard T. Ritenbaugh
The Bible and the Environment

Related Topics: Dominion | Dominion over Animals | Dress and Keep | Human Nature | Noah | Noah's Stewardship | Responsibility, Sense of | Stewardship | Stewardship of Earth

Other commentary entries containing this verse:

Genesis 1:26
Genesis 1:28
Genesis 2:15

Library resources that contain this verse:

The Sabbath Written By the Finger of God
Articles
The Bible and the Environment
Sermon Transcripts
Lessons From the Animals  (2)

 

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