Genesis 9
1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth!
And God blessed Noah and his sons. And he said to them: “Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.
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 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.
3 Every living creature that moves will be food for you, as well as all the green plants.
And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you,
4 But do not eat meat with the lifeblood still in it.
except that flesh with blood 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 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.
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 will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.
7 Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth—have many descendants!”
But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it.”
8 Then God told Noah and his sons who were there with him,
To Noah and to his sons with him, God also said this:
9 “Listen, I'm making my agreement with you and your descendants,
“Behold, I will establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring 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 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.
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.”
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.”
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 pact that I grant between me and you, and to every living soul that 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 will place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself and the earth.
14 Whenever I make clouds form over the earth and the rainbow appears,
And when I obscure the sky with clouds, my arc will appear in the clouds.
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 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.
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 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.”
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 will be the sign of the covenant that I have established between myself and all that is flesh upon the earth.”
18 Noah's sons who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of the Canaanites.)
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.
19 All the people who are spread over the world are descended from these three sons of Noah.
These three are the sons of Noah. And from these all the family of mankind was spread over the whole earth.
20 Noah started to cultivate the ground as a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
And Noah, a good farmer, began to cultivate the land, 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 by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked 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.
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.
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 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.
24 When Noah woke up from his drunken sleep, he discovered what his youngest son had done,
Then Noah, awaking from the wine, when he had learned what 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!”
he said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be 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: “Blessed be the Lord 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 enlarge Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”
28 Noah lived for another 350 years after the flood.
And after the great flood, Noah lived for three hundred and fifty years.
29 Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
And all his days were completed in nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.
