Genesis 9
1 And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.
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 And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.
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 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green 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 flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
[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 for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-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 takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
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 And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.
As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.”
8 And God said to Noah and to his sons,
God also said to Noah and his sons,
9 Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,
“Listen carefully. I am now making a solemn promise to you and with your descendants,
10 And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.
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 will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.
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 agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:
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 will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement 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 And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,
When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
15 And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.
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 the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing 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 And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh 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 And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is 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 all the earth was peopled.
All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
20 In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.
Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
21 And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in 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 unclothed, and gave news of it to 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 And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.
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 And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,
When Noah woke up [and was sober again], he found out how wrongfully Ham, his youngest son, had behaved toward him.
25 Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants 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 And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.
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 make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.
And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
28 And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;
Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
29 all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.
He died when he was 950 years old.
