< Genesis 9 >
1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth!
And God blessed Noe and his sons, and said to them, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and have dominion over it.
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 dread and the fear of you shall be upon all the wild beasts of the earth, on all the birds of the sky, and on all things moving upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea, I have placed them under your power.
3 Every living creature that moves will be food for you, as well as all the green plants.
And every reptile which is living shall be to you for meat, I have given all things to you as the green herbs.
4 But do not eat meat with the lifeblood still in it.
But flesh with blood of life you shall not eat.
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.
For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand 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.
He that sheds man's blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.
7 Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth—have many descendants!”
But do you increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and have dominion over it.
8 Then God told Noah and his sons who were there with him,
And God spoke to Noe, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 “Listen, I'm making my agreement with you and your descendants,
And behold I establish my covenant 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 creature with you, of birds and of beasts, and with all the wild beasts of the earth, as many as are with you, of all that come out of the ark.
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 establish my covenant with you and all flesh shall not any more die by the water of the flood, and there shall no more be a flood of water to destroy all the earth.
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 the Lord God said to Noe, This [is] the sign of the covenant which I set between me and you, and between every living creature which is with you for perpetual 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 set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between me and the earth.
14 Whenever I make clouds form over the earth and the rainbow appears,
And it shall be when I gather clouds upon the earth, that my bow shall 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 remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and between every living soul in all flesh, and there shall no longer be water for a deluge, so as to blot out 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 my bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant between me and the earth, and between [every] living soul in all flesh, which is upon 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 Noe, This [is] the sign of the covenant, which I have made between me and all flesh, which is upon the earth.
18 Noah's sons who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of the Canaanites.)
Now the sons of Noe which came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, Japheth. And Cham was father of Chanaan.
19 All the people who are spread over the world are descended from these three sons of Noah.
These three are the sons of Noe, of these were men scattered over all the earth.
20 Noah started to cultivate the ground as a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
And Noe began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.
21 He drank some of the wine he'd produced, got drunk, and fell asleep in his tent, naked.
And he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and was naked in his house.
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's private parts and went and told his two brothers who were outside.
And Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without.
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 Sem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face [was] backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.
24 When Noah woke up from his drunken sleep, he discovered what his youngest son had done,
And Noe recovered from the wine, and knew all that his younger son had done to him.
25 and said, “May Canaan be cursed! He will be the lowest kind of slave and will serve his brothers!”
And he said, Cursed be the servant Chanaan, a slave shall he be to his brethren.
26 Then Noah continued, “May the Lord be blessed, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.
And he said, Blessed [be] the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shall be his bond-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 room for Japheth, and let him dwell in the habitations of Sem, and let Chanaan be his servant.
28 Noah lived for another 350 years after the flood.
And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
And all the days of Noe were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.