Genesis 5:29 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁹ and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us for our work and for the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ He named him Noah, saying, This one shall bring us relief and comfort from our work and the [grievous] toil of our hands due to the ground being cursed by the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁹ and named him Noah, saying, “This one will give us relief from our hard work, from the pain in our hands, because of the fertile land that the LORD cursed.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will console us from the works and hardships of our hands, in the land that the Lord has cursed."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord hath cursed.

Genesis 5:29 Cross References

Genesis 5:28

And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

Genesis 5:30

And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 7:23

And every living thing was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping thing, and fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.

Genesis 9:24

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him.

Isaiah 54:9

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

Ezekiel 14:14

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD

Ezekiel 14:20

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

Matthew 24:37

And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

Luke 3:36

the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

1 Peter 3:20

which aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

2 Peter 2:5

and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;