Genesis 9
1 And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;
And God blessed Noah and his sons. And he said to them: “Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.
2 and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every bird of the heavens, on all that creeps on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea—into your hand they have been given.
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 creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;
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 only flesh in its life—its blood—you do not eat.
except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
5 And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man’s brother I require the life of man;
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 man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.
Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.
7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.”
But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it.”
8 And God speaks to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
To Noah and to his sons with him, God also said this:
9 “And I, behold, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
“Behold, I will establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
10 and with every living creature which [is] with you, among bird, among livestock, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going out of the Ark—to every beast of the earth.
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 And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not cut off anymore by waters of a flood, and there is not a flood to destroy the earth anymore.”
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 And God says, “This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that [is] with you, to continuous 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 My bow I have given in the cloud, and it has been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;
I will place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself and the earth.
14 and it has come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow has been seen in the cloud,
And when I obscure the sky with clouds, my arc will appear in the clouds.
15 and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters no longer become a flood to destroy all flesh;
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 and the bow has been in the cloud, and I have seen it—to remember the perpetual covenant between God and every living creature among all flesh which [is] 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 And God says to Noah, “This [is] a token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that [is] on the 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 And the sons of Noah who are going out of the Ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan.
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 These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these has all the earth been overspread.
These three are the sons of Noah. And from these all the family of mankind was spread over the whole earth.
20 And Noah remains a man of the ground, and plants a vineyard,
And Noah, a good farmer, began to cultivate the land, and he planted a vineyard.
21 and drinks of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovers himself in the midst of the tent.
And by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked in his tent.
22 And Ham, father of Canaan, sees the nakedness of his father, and declares to his two brothers 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 And Shem takes—Japheth also—the garment, and they place on the shoulder of them both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their father; and their faces [are] backward, and their father’s nakedness they have not seen.
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 And Noah awakens from his wine, and knows that which his young son has done to him,
Then Noah, awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,
25 and says: “Cursed [is] Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brothers.”
he said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.”
26 And he says: “Blessed of my God YHWH [is] Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.
And he said: “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, let Canaan be his servant.
27 God gives beauty to Japheth, And he dwells in tents of Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.”
May God enlarge Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”
28 And Noah lives after the flood three hundred and fifty years;
And after the great flood, Noah lived for three hundred and fifty years.
29 and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dies.
And all his days were completed in nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.
