Genesis 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “I want you to have many children who will live all over the earth.
2 The 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.
All the wild animals on the earth and all the birds, all the creatures that scurry across the ground, and all the fish, will be very afraid [DOU] of you. I have put them under your control.
3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
Just as I previously said you could eat green plants for food, now I am saying you can eat everything that lives and moves.
4 But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
[It is blood that causes creatures to be alive], therefore you must not eat meat that still has blood in it after the animal is killed. [After you have drained the blood out, you may cook it and eat it].
5 And 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:
I insist that murderers must be executed. Animals that kill people must also be executed. The reason that everyone who murders someone else must be executed is that
6 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
I made people to be like myself [in many ways]. So someone who murders another human being must be executed by others, [because he killed someone who is like me].
7 But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.”
8 Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
God also said to Noah and his sons,
9 “Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
“Listen carefully. I am now making a solemn promise to you and with your descendants,
10 and 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.
and with all the living creatures that are with you—including the birds, the livestock, and the wild animals—every living creature on the earth that came out of the boat with you.
11 And 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.”
This is the promise that I am making to you: I will never again destroy all living creatures by a flood, or destroy everything else on the earth by a flood.”
12 And 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:
Then God said to him, “This is the sign to guarantee that I will keep the promise that I am making to you and to all living creatures, a promise that I will keep forever:
13 I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
[From time to time] I will put a rainbow in the sky. It will remind me of my promise that I have made to you and everything on the earth.
14 Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
15 I 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.
it will remind me about the promise that I have made to you and all living creatures, my promise that there will never again be a flood that will destroy all living creatures.
16 And 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.”
Whenever there is a rainbow in the sky, I will see it, and I will think about the promise that I have made to every living creature that is upon the earth, a promise that I will keep forever.”
17 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
Then God said to Noah, “The rainbow will be the sign of the promise that I have made to all the creatures that live on the earth.”
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
The sons of Noah who came out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham later became the father of Canaan.
19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
20 Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
21 But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
[When they later produced grapes, he made wine from the grapes]. One day, when he drank too much of the wine, he became drunk, and he lay naked in his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father lying naked in the tent. So he went outside and told his two older brothers what he had seen.
23 Then 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.
Then Shem and Japheth took a large cloth and placed it across their backs, and walked backwards into the tent. They covered their father’s naked body with the cloth. Their faces were turned away from their father, so they did not see him naked.
24 When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
When Noah woke up [and was sober again], he found out how wrongfully Ham, his youngest son, had behaved toward him.
25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
He said, “I am cursing Ham’s youngest son, Canaan, and his descendants. They will be like slaves to their uncles.
26 He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
I will ask God to enlarge the territory that belongs to Japheth, and allow his descendants to live peacefully among the descendants of Shem [MTY].
27 May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
28 After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.
Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
29 So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
He died when he was 950 years old.
