Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And he shall call his name Noah, saying, This shall console us from our work and from the labor of our hands because of the earth which Jehovah cursed it
New American Standard Bible
Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
And he named him Noah,
International Standard Version
whom he named Noah, because he said, "May this one comfort us from our work, from pain that is caused by our manual labor, and from the ground that the LORD has cursed."
A Conservative Version
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which LORD has cursed.
American Standard Version
and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.
Amplified
He named him Noah, saying, “This one shall bring us rest and comfort from our work and from the [dreadful] toil of our hands because of the ground which the Lord cursed.”
Bible in Basic English
And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.
Darby Translation
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and concerning the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.
King James 2000
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 has cursed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one {shall relieve us} from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.
Modern King James verseion
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and called him Noah, saying, "This same shall comfort us: as concerning our work and sorrow of our hands which we have about the earth that the LORD hath cursed."
NET Bible
He named him Noah, saying, "This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed."
New Heart English Bible
and he named him Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."
The Emphasized Bible
and he called his name Noah saying, - This, one shall give us rest from our work, And from the grievous toil of our hands, By reason of the ground which Yahweh hath cursed,
Webster
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.
World English Bible
and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
Youngs Literal Translation
and calleth his name Noah, saying, 'This one doth comfort us concerning our work, and concerning the labour of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.'
Themes
Agriculture » Foes of » Made difficult by sin
Agriculture or husbandry » The labor of, supposed to be lessened by noah
Lamech » Son of methuselah, and father of noah, lived for seven-hundred and seventy-seven years
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 5:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Adam's Descendants To Noah
28 Ana Lamech shall live two and eighty years and a hundred years, and he shall beget a son. 29 And he shall call his name Noah, saying, This shall console us from our work and from the labor of our hands because of the earth which Jehovah cursed it 30 And Lamech shall live after the begetting of Noah five and ninety years and five hundred years, and he shall beget sons and daughters.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17-19
And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Genesis 4:11-12
And now cursed art thou, from the earth, which opened her mouth to take thy brother's bloods from thy hand.
Genesis 6:8-9
And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.
Genesis 7:23
And every living thing shall be wiped off which upon the face of the earth, from man even to cattle, even to the creeping thing, and even to the birds of the heavens; and they shall be wiped out from the earth, and Noah only shall remain and they which with him in the ark.
Genesis 9:24
And Noah will awake from his wine and will know what his young son did to him.
Isaiah 54:9
For this the water of Noah to me: as I sware to the water of Noah from again passing over the earth; thus I sware from being angry against thee and from rebuking upon thee.
Ezekiel 14:14
And were these three men in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they by their justice shall deliver their souls, says the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 14:20
And Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if son if daughter they shall deliver; they by their justice shall deliver their soul.
Matthew 24:37
And as the days of Noe, so shall be the arrival of the Son of man.
Luke 3:36
Of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Sem, of Noe, of Lamech,
Luke 17:26-27
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, having an intimation of the divine will of things not yet seen, being circumspect, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; by which he condemned the world, and by faith became an heir of justice.
1 Peter 3:20
They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
2 Peter 2:5
And spared not the old world, but Noah the eighth, a herald of justice, he watched, having brought an inundation upon the world of the irreligious;