Genesis 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
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 let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moveth [on] the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.
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 moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.
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 Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye 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 And indeed your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of Man, at the hand of each [the blood] of his brother, will I require the life of 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 Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath 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 And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on 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 Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
God also said to Noah and his sons,
9 And I, 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 soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark — every animal of the earth.
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 establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy 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 God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting 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 clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the 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 come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the 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 every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth become a flood to destroy 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 shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul of all flesh that 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 Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that 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 And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, and 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 are the sons of Noah; and from these was [the population of] the whole earth spread abroad.
All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
20 And Noah began [to be] a husbandman, and planted a vineyard.
Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered himself 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 the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren 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 the upper garment and both laid [it] upon their shoulders, and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned away, that they saw not their father's nakedness.
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 Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest 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 Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen 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 Jehovah, the God of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.
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 Let God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.
And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.
He died when he was 950 years old.
