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 sonnes, and said to them, Bring foorth fruite, and multiplie, and replenish 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.
Also the feare of you, and the dread of you shalbe vpon euery beast of the earth, and vpon euery foule of the heauen, vpon all that moueth on the earth, and vpon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they deliuered.
3 Every living creature that moves will be food for you, as well as all the green plants.
Euery thing that moueth and liueth, shall be meate for you: as the greene herbe, haue I giuen you all things.
4 But do not eat meat with the lifeblood still in it.
But flesh with the life thereof, I meane, with the blood thereof, shall ye not eate.
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 surely I will require your blood, wherein your liues are: at the hand of euery beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, euen at the hand of a mans brother will I require the life of 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.
Who so sheadeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God hath he made man.
7 Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth—have many descendants!”
But bring ye forth fruite and multiplie: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.
8 Then God told Noah and his sons who were there with him,
God spake also to Noah and to his sonnes with him, saying,
9 “Listen, I'm making my agreement with you and your descendants,
Behold, I, euen I establish my couenant with you, and with your seede 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 euery liuing creature that is with you, with the foule, with the cattell, and with euery beast of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, vnto euery beast 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.”
And my couenant will I establish with you, that from henceforth all flesh shall not be rooted out by ye waters of the flood, neither shall there be a flood to destroy the earth any more.
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.
Then God saide, This is the token of the couenant which I make betweene me and you, and betweene euery liuing thing, that is with you vnto perpetuall 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 haue set my bowe in the cloude, and it shalbe for a signe of the couenant betweene me and the earth.
14 Whenever I make clouds form over the earth and the rainbow appears,
And when I shall couer the earth with a cloud, and the bowe shall be seene in the cloude,
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.
Then will I remember my couenant, which is betweene me and you, and betweene euery liuing thing in all flesh, and there shalbe no more waters of a flood to destroy 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.”
Therefore the bowe shalbe in the cloude, that I may see it, and remember the euerlasting couenant betweene God, and euery liuing thing in all flesh that is vpon the earth.
17 Then God told Noah, “This is the sign of the agreement I'm making between me and every creature on earth.”
God said yet to Noah, This is the signe of the couenant, which I haue established betweene me and all flesh that is vpon the earth.
18 Noah's sons who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of the Canaanites.)
Nowe the sonnes of Noah going foorth of the Arke, were Shem and Ham and Iapheth. 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 are the three sonnes of Noah, and of them was the whole earth ouerspred.
20 Noah started to cultivate the ground as a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
Noah also began to be an husband man and planted a vineyard.
21 He drank some of the wine he'd produced, got drunk, and fell asleep in his tent, naked.
And he drunke of ye wine and was drunken, and was vncouered in the middes of 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 when Ham the father of Canaan sawe the nakednesse of his father, he tolde his two brethren 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.
Then tooke Shem and Iapheth a garment, and put it vpon both their shoulders, and went backwarde, and couered the nakednesse of their father with their faces backwarde: so they sawe not their fathers nakednesse.
24 When Noah woke up from his drunken sleep, he discovered what his youngest son had done,
Then Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his yonger sonne had done vnto him,
25 and said, “May Canaan be cursed! He will be the lowest kind of slave and will serve his brothers!”
And said, Cursed be Canaan: a seruant of seruants shall he be vnto his brethren.
26 Then Noah continued, “May the Lord be blessed, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.
He said moreouer, blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and let Canaan be his seruant.
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.”
God perswade Iapheth, that he may dwell in the tentes of Shem, and let Canaan be his seruant.
28 Noah lived for another 350 years after the flood.
And Noah liued after the flood three hundreth and fiftie yeeres.
29 Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
So all the dayes of Noah were nine hundreth and fiftie yeeres: and he died.
