And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply. The Noachidae were the seed by which the world was to be repopulated. They were about to enter upon a new career in the history of human progress; and there can be little doubt that, warned by the very terrible effects of unrestrained sensuality and violence, the early post-diluvians would be distinguished generally as a pious and virtuous, consequently a vigorous and a prolific race. Accordingly, considering the long life of the ancients who lived within 300 years after the flood - i:e., until the time of Abraham-according to the Hebrew chronology, and consequently their co-existence with those that descended from them, it may be concluded that, without the help of a miraculous fertility, mankind, descended from Noah and his three sons and their wives, might, in that period, arise to a stupendous multitude by that arithmetical progression that would be found in their generations.