Genesis 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons. And he said to them: “Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
2 And let the fear and trembling of you be upon all the animals of the earth, and upon all the birds of the air, along with all that moves across the earth. All the fish of the sea have been delivered into your hand.
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.
3 And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you,
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
4 except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
5 For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his brother, I will examine the life of mankind.
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:
6 Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
7 But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it.”
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
8 To Noah and to his sons with him, God also said this:
Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
9 “Behold, I will establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
10 and with every living soul that is with you: as much with the birds as with the cattle and all the animals of the earth that have gone forth from the ark, and with all the wild beasts of the earth.
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.
11 I will establish my covenant with you, and no longer will all that is flesh be put to death by the waters of a great flood, and, henceforth, there will not be a great flood to utterly destroy the earth.”
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.”
12 And God said: “This is the sign of the pact that I grant between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.
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:
13 I will place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself and the earth.
I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
14 And when I obscure the sky with clouds, my arc will appear in the clouds.
Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
15 And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that enlivens flesh. And there will no longer be waters from a great flood to wipe away all that is flesh.
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.
16 And the arc will be in the clouds, and I will see it, and I will remember the everlasting covenant that was enacted between God and every living soul of all that is flesh upon the earth.”
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.”
17 And God said to Noah, “This will be the sign of the covenant that I have established between myself and all that is flesh upon the earth.”
So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
18 And so the sons of Noah, who came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now Ham himself is the father of Canaan.
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
19 These three are the sons of Noah. And from these all the family of mankind was spread over the whole earth.
These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
20 And Noah, a good farmer, began to cultivate the land, and he planted a vineyard.
Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
21 And by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked in his tent.
But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
22 Because of this, when Ham, the father of Canaan, had indeed seen the privates of his father to be naked, he reported it to his two brothers outside.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
23 And truly, Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their arms, and, advancing backwards, covered the privates of their father. And their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s manhood.
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.
24 Then Noah, awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,
When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.”
he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
26 And he said: “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, let Canaan be his servant.
He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”
May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
28 And after the great flood, Noah lived for three hundred and fifty years.
After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.
29 And all his days were completed in nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.
So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
