Text: Genesis 9:1 — "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth."
OT Text Referred to: Genesis 1:28
Source: Anchor-Text Network — Genesis 1:28 (Beale, The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New Testament; Schnittjer, Old Testament Use of Old Testament)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression, Typology
Anchor Text: Gen 1:28 — The Adamic Commission
Significance: After the flood-recreation, God blesses Noah and his sons with a near-verbatim restatement of the Adamic commission: pārâ ("be fruitful"), rābâ ("multiply"), and mālēʾ ("fill the earth"). The repetition is deliberate — the narrator frames the post-flood world as a new-creational restart and Noah as the new Adam, blessed with the same first three commission verbs that God spoke to Adam in Eden. The dominion clauses (kābaš / rādâ) are reissued in altered form in Gen 9:2, where the fear of man falls on "every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea" — the same creature-domains Adam was to rule. This is the single highest-priority reissue in the network: it establishes the canonical pattern that the commission is re-spoken at every threshold of new creation. The Adam-Noah typology traced here lands finally in the Last Adam, Christ, who succeeds where both Adam and Noah failed, and whose people fill the new creation with restored image-bearers (Matt 28:18-20).