Genesis 9

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

²The fear and dread of you will fall 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. They are delivered into your hand.

³Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

⁴But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

⁵And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

⁶Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

⁷But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

⁸Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

⁹“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

¹⁰and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.

¹¹And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

¹²And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

¹³I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

¹⁴Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

¹⁵I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

¹⁶And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”

¹⁷So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”

¹⁸The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

²⁰Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

²¹But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

²³Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

²⁴When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

²⁵he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

²⁶He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.

²⁷May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”

²⁸After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.

²⁹So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

Genesis 9

¹And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

²and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the seainto your hand they have been given.

³Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

⁴only flesh in its lifeits bloodye do not eat.

⁵`And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man;

⁶whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

⁷And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'

⁸And God speaketh unto Noah, and unto his sons with him, saying,

⁹`And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

¹⁰and with every living creature which is with you, among fowl, among cattle, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going out of the arkto every beast of the earth.

¹¹And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not any more cut off by waters of a deluge, and there is not any more a deluge to destroy the earth.'

¹²And God saith, `This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, to generations age-during;

¹³My bow I have given in the cloud, and it hath been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;

¹⁴and it hath come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath been seen in the cloud,

¹⁵and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters become no more a deluge to destroy all flesh;

¹⁶and the bow hath been in the cloud, and I have seen itto remember the covenant age-during between God and every living creature among all flesh which is on the earth.'

¹⁷And God saith unto Noah, `This is a token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.'

¹⁸And the sons of Noah who are going out of the ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan.

¹⁹These three are sons of Noah, and from these hath all the earth been overspread.

²⁰And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard,

²¹and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent.

²²And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without.

²³And Shem takethJapheth alsothe garment, and they place on the shoulder of them both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their father; and their faces are backward, and their father's nakedness they have not seen.

²⁴And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth that which his young son hath done to him,

²⁵and saith: `Cursed is Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'

²⁶And he saith: `Blessed of Jehovah my God is Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.

²⁷God doth give beauty to Japheth, And he dwelleth in tents of Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.'

²⁸And Noah liveth after the deluge three hundred and fifty years;

²⁹and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dieth.