Genesis 9:20
Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
In Context
19All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
Cross References
Genesis 3:18Thornbushes and thistle plants and other weeds will grow and prevent what you have planted from growing. And for food, you will have to eat things that just grow in your fields.
Genesis 4:2After those boys grew up, Abel ◄tended/took care of► sheep and goats, and Cain became a farmer.
Deuteronomy 20:6If anyone among you has planted a vineyard and has not yet harvested any grapes from it [RHQ], he should go home. If he stays here and dies in the battle, someone else will harvest the grapes and enjoy the wine made from them.
Proverbs 10:11What righteous people say [MTY] is like a fountain that ◄gives life/enables people to live many years► [MET], but what wicked people say [MTY] hides the fact that they intend to act violently.
Proverbs 24:30One day I walked by the vineyards of a lazy man, a man who did not have good sense.
Song of Solomon 1:6But do not stare at me because of the sun having caused my skin to become dark; my brothers were angry with me, so they forced me to work out in the sunshine in the vineyards, so I was not able to take good care of my body/skin [CHI, MET].
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:19-24
Sin of Ham. ( b. c. 2347.) 18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment,… Read the whole commentary →