Genesis 9
1 And God blessed Noe and his sons, and said to them, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and have dominion over it.
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 dread and the fear of you shall be upon all the wild beasts of the earth, on all the birds of the sky, and on all things moving upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea, I have placed them under your power.
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 And every reptile which is living shall be to you for meat, I have given all things to you as the green herbs.
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 blood of life you shall not eat.
[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 For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand 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 He that sheds man's blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.
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 do you increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and have dominion over 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 And God spoke to Noe, and to his sons with him, saying,
God also said to Noah and his sons,
9 And behold I establish my covenant 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 creature with you, of birds and of beasts, and with all the wild beasts of the earth, as many as are with you, of all that come 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 will establish my covenant with you and all flesh shall not any more die by the water of the flood, and there shall no more be a flood of water to destroy all 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 the Lord God said to Noe, This [is] the sign of the covenant which I set between me and you, and between every living creature which is with you for perpetual 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 set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of 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 And it shall be when I gather clouds upon the earth, that my bow shall 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 remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and between every living soul in all flesh, and there shall no longer be water for a deluge, so as to blot out 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 my bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant between me and the earth, and between [every] living soul in all flesh, which is upon 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 Noe, This [is] the sign of the covenant, which I have made between me and all flesh, which is upon 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 Now the sons of Noe which came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, Japheth. And Cham was father of Chanaan.
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 are the sons of Noe, of these were men scattered over all the earth.
All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
20 And Noe began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.
Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and was naked in his house.
[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 Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without.
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 Sem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face [was] backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.
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 Noe recovered from the wine, and knew all that his younger 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 And he said, Cursed be the servant Chanaan, a slave shall he be to his brethren.
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, Blessed [be] the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shall be his bond-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 room for Japheth, and let him dwell in the habitations of Sem, and let Chanaan be his servant.
And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
28 And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
29 And all the days of Noe were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
He died when he was 950 years old.
