Genesis 9
1 And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, 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.
The fear of you and the dread of you will be upon every living animal on the earth, upon every bird of the sky, upon everything that goes low on the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea. They are given 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;
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
4 only flesh in its life—its blood—you do not eat.
But you must not eat meat with its life—that is its blood—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;
But for your blood, the life that is in your blood, I will require payment. From the hand of every animal I will require it. From the hand of any man, that is, from the hand of one who has murdered his brother, I will require an accounting for the life of that man.
6 whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.
Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for it was in the image of God that he made man.
7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.”
As for you, be fruitful and multiply, spread throughout the earth and multiply on it.”
8 And God speaks to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
9 “And I, behold, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
“As for me, listen! I am going to confirm my covenant with you and with your descendants 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 creature that is with you, with the birds, the livestock, and every creature of the earth with you, from all that came out of the ark, to every living creature on 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 hereby confirm my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be destroyed by the waters of a flood. Never again will there be a flood to 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;
God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future 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 have set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me 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,
It will come about when I bring a cloud over the earth and the rainbow is seen in the cloud,
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;
then I will call to mind my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. The waters will never again become 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.”
The rainbow will be in the clouds and I will see it, in order to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is 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 said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have confirmed between me and all flesh that is on 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.
The sons of Noah that came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.
19 These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these has all the earth been overspread.
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
20 And Noah remains a man of the ground, and plants a vineyard,
Noah began to be 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 and became drunk. He was lying uncovered in his tent.
22 And Ham, father of Canaan, sees the nakedness of his father, and declares to his two brothers outside.
Then Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told 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.
So Shem and Japheth took a robe and laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned the other way, so they did not see their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awakens from his wine, and knows that which his young son has done to him,
When Noah awoke from his wine, he learned what his youngest son had done to him.
25 and says: “Cursed [is] Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brothers.”
So he said, “Cursed be Canaan. May he be a servant to his brothers' servants.”
26 And he says: “Blessed of my God YHWH [is] Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.
He also said, “May Yahweh, the God of Shem, be blessed, and may 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 extend the territory of Japheth, and let him make his home in the tents of Shem. May Canaan be his servant.”
28 And Noah lives after the flood three hundred and fifty years;
After the flood, Noah lived three hundred fifty years.
29 and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dies.
All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
