Genesis 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.
God blessed Noah and his sons, and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth!
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, with all with which the ground teems, and all the fishes of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
All animals will be very afraid of you—this includes all the birds, all the creatures that run along the ground, and all the fish in the sea. You are in charge of them.
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all.
Every living creature that moves will be food for you, as well as all the green plants.
4 But flesh with the life of it, which is the blood of it, ye shall not eat.
But do not eat meat with the lifeblood still in it.
5 And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
If your blood is shed by any animal, I will call it to account; and if your blood is shed by any person, I will call that person to account.
6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man.
Whoever sheds the blood of a human being will have their blood shed by human beings. For God made human beings in his image.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply on it.
Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth—have many descendants!”
8 And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Then God told Noah and his sons who were there with him,
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
“Listen, I'm making my agreement with you and your descendants,
10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
and with all the animals around you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals of the earth—every animal that accompanied you on the ark.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor shall there be a flood any more to destroy the earth.
In my agreement I'm promising you that I won't ever again destroy all life by means of a flood—there won't be a destructive flood like this again.”
12 And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Then God said, “I'm going to give you a sign to confirm the agreement I'm making between me and you and all living creatures, an agreement that will last for all generations.
13 I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
I've placed my rainbow in the clouds, and this will be the sign of my agreement with you and with all life on earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.
Whenever I make clouds form over the earth and the rainbow appears,
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
it will remind me of my agreement between me and you and every kind of living creature that floodwaters won't ever again destroy all life.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
I will see the rainbow in the clouds and it will remind me of the eternal agreement between God and every kind of living creature that lives on the earth.”
17 And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
Then God told Noah, “This is the sign of the agreement I'm making between me and every creature on earth.”
18 And the sons of Noah, who went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.
Noah's sons who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of the Canaanites.)
19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was spread over.
All the people who are spread over the world are descended from these three sons of Noah.
20 And Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
Noah started to cultivate the ground as a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered within his tent.
He drank some of the wine he'd produced, got drunk, and fell asleep in his tent, naked.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's private parts and went and told his two brothers who were outside.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
Shem and Japheth picked up a cloak and, holding it over their shoulders, walked in backwards and covered up their father's privates. They made sure to look the other way so they wouldn't see their father's privates.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
When Noah woke up from his drunken sleep, he discovered what his youngest son had done,
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers.
and said, “May Canaan be cursed! He will be the lowest kind of slave and will serve his brothers!”
26 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant.
Then Noah continued, “May the Lord be blessed, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.
27 God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant.
May God give Japtheth plenty of space to accommodate his many descendants, and may they live at peace among Shem's people, and may Canaan also be his slave.”
28 And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
Noah lived for another 350 years after the flood.
29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
