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.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth on the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
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 moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4 except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood shall ye not eat.
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 your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.
Whoever sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7 But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it.”
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.
8 To Noah and to his sons with him, God also said this:
And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 “Behold, I will establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
And I, behold, I establish my covenant 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 creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
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 establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more 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 token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual 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 do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And when I obscure the sky with clouds, my arc will appear in the clouds.
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall 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 remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy 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 shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon 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 token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon 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, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and 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 was the whole earth overspread.
20 And Noah, a good farmer, began to cultivate the land, and he planted a vineyard.
And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked in his tent.
And he drank of the wine, and was drunk; and he was uncovered within 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 the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren 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 garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
24 Then Noah, awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.
25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.”
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren.
26 And he said: “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, let Canaan be his servant.
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
28 And after the great flood, Noah lived for three hundred and fifty years.
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all his days were completed in nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
