Genesis 9
1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout 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 All animals will be very afraid of you—this includes all the birds, all the creatures that run along the ground, and all the fish in the sea. You are in charge of them.
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 Every living creature that moves will be food for you, as well as all the green plants.
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 But do not eat meat with the lifeblood still in it.
But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
5 If your blood is shed by any animal, I will call it to account; and if your blood is shed by any person, I will call that person to account.
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 sheds the blood of a human being will have their blood shed by human beings. For God made human beings in his image.
Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
7 Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth—have many descendants!”
And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.
8 Then God told Noah and his sons who were there with him,
And God said to Noah and to his sons,
9 “Listen, I'm making my agreement with you and your descendants,
Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,
10 and with all the animals around you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals of the earth—every animal that accompanied you on the ark.
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 In my agreement I'm promising you that I won't ever again destroy all life by means of a flood—there won't be a destructive flood like this again.”
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 Then God said, “I'm going to give you a sign to confirm the agreement I'm making between me and you and all living creatures, an agreement that will last for all 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've placed my rainbow in the clouds, and this will be the sign of my agreement with you and with all life on 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 Whenever I make clouds form over the earth and the rainbow appears,
And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,
15 it will remind me of my agreement between me and you and every kind of living creature that floodwaters won't ever again destroy all life.
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 I will see the rainbow in the clouds and it will remind me of the eternal agreement between God and every kind of living creature that lives on 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 Then God told Noah, “This is the sign of the agreement I'm making between me and every creature on 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 Noah's sons who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of the Canaanites.)
And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19 All the people who are spread over the world are descended from these three sons of Noah.
These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.
20 Noah started to cultivate the ground as a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.
21 He drank some of the wine he'd produced, got drunk, and fell asleep in his tent, naked.
And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent.
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's private parts and went and told his two brothers who were outside.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.
23 Shem and Japheth picked up a cloak and, holding it over their shoulders, walked in backwards and covered up their father's privates. They made sure to look the other way so they wouldn't see their father's privates.
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 When Noah woke up from his drunken sleep, he discovered what his youngest son had done,
And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,
25 and said, “May Canaan be cursed! He will be the lowest kind of slave and will serve his brothers!”
Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.
26 Then Noah continued, “May the Lord be blessed, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.
And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God give Japtheth plenty of space to accommodate his many descendants, and may they live at peace among Shem's people, and may Canaan also be his slave.”
May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.
28 Noah lived for another 350 years after the flood.
And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;
29 Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.
