Genesis 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons. And he said to them: “Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.
And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.
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.
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.
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,
Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
4 except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
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 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.
6 Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.
Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
7 But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it.”
And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.
8 To Noah and to his sons with him, God also said this:
And God said to Noah and to his sons,
9 “Behold, I will establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed 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 thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.
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 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.
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 agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:
13 I will place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself and the earth.
I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.
14 And when I obscure the sky with clouds, my arc will appear in the clouds.
And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,
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.
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.
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 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.
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.”
And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh 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.
And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is 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 all the earth was peopled.
20 And Noah, a good farmer, began to cultivate the land, and he planted a vineyard.
In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.
21 And by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked in his tent.
And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in 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 unclothed, and gave news of it to 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.
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.
24 Then Noah, awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,
And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,
25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.”
Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.
26 And he said: “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, let Canaan be his servant.
And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”
May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.
28 And after the great flood, Noah lived for three hundred and fifty years.
And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;
29 And all his days were completed in nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.
all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.
