< Genesis 9 >
1 And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;
God blessed Noah and his sons, and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout 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.
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.
3 Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;
Every living creature that moves will be food for you, as well as all the green plants.
4 only flesh in its life—its blood—you do not eat.
But do not eat meat with the lifeblood still in it.
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;
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.
6 whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.
Whoever sheds the blood of a human being will have their blood shed by human beings. For God made human beings in his image.
7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.”
Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth—have many descendants!”
8 And God speaks to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Then God told Noah and his sons who were there with him,
9 “And I, behold, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
“Listen, I'm making my agreement with you and your descendants,
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 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.
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.”
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.”
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;
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.
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've placed my rainbow in the clouds, and this will be the sign of my agreement with you and with all life on 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,
Whenever I make clouds form over the earth and the rainbow appears,
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;
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.
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.”
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.”
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.”
Then God told Noah, “This is the sign of the agreement I'm making between me and every creature on 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.
Noah's sons who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of the Canaanites.)
19 These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these has all the earth been overspread.
All the people who are spread over the world are descended from these three sons of Noah.
20 And Noah remains a man of the ground, and plants a vineyard,
Noah started to cultivate the ground as a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
21 and drinks of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovers himself in the midst of the tent.
He drank some of the wine he'd produced, got drunk, and fell asleep in his tent, naked.
22 And Ham, father of Canaan, sees the nakedness of his father, and declares to his two brothers outside.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's private parts and went and told his two brothers who were 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.
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.
24 And Noah awakens from his wine, and knows that which his young son has done to him,
When Noah woke up from his drunken sleep, he discovered what his youngest son had done,
25 and says: “Cursed [is] Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brothers.”
and said, “May Canaan be cursed! He will be the lowest kind of slave and will serve his brothers!”
26 And he says: “Blessed of my God YHWH [is] Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.
Then Noah continued, “May the Lord be blessed, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.
27 God gives beauty to Japheth, And he dwells in tents of Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.”
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.”
28 And Noah lives after the flood three hundred and fifty years;
Noah lived for another 350 years after the flood.
29 and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dies.
Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.