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 Noe 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 dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are 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 every thing that moveth and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:
4 only flesh in its life—its blood—you do not eat.
Saving 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 require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.
6 whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.
Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.
7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.”
But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth, and fill it.
8 And God speaks to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him,
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 seed 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 well in all birds as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the 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 all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste 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 covenant which I give 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 set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me, and between 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 shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall 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 beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all 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 bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is 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 Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all 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 the sons of Noe who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.
19 These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these has all the earth been overspread.
These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.
20 And Noah remains a man of the ground, and plants a vineyard,
And Noe, a husbandman, began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.
21 and drinks of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovers himself in the midst of the tent.
And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.
22 And Ham, father of Canaan, sees the nakedness of his father, and declares to his two brothers outside.
Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.
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.
But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
24 And Noah awakens from his wine, and knows that which his young son has done to him,
And Noe 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 Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
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 Sem, be Chanaan 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 dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.
28 And Noah lives after the flood three hundred and fifty years;
And Noe lived after the flood 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 in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
