Genesis 9
1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “I want you to have many children who will live all over the earth.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you will be on every wild animal of the earth, and on every tame animal of the earth, and on every flying creature of the sky, and on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your power they are given.
All the wild animals on the earth and all the birds, all the creatures that scurry across the ground, and all the fish, will be very afraid [DOU] of you. I have put them under your control.
3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave the green plants, I now give you everything.
Just as I previously said you could eat green plants for food, now I am saying you can eat everything that lives and moves.
4 But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
[It is blood that causes creatures to be alive], therefore you must not eat meat that still has blood in it after the animal is killed. [After you have drained the blood out, you may cook it and eat it].
5 And surely I will require a reckoning for your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it, and from humans. From every human being I will require it for the life of his fellow human being.
I insist that murderers must be executed. Animals that kill people must also be executed. The reason that everyone who murders someone else must be executed is that
6 Whoever takes a human life, by a human will his life be taken, for God made humankind in his own image.
I made people to be like myself [in many ways]. So someone who murders another human being must be executed by others, [because he killed someone who is like me].
7 And as for you, be fruitful and multiply, and increase abundantly on the earth, and subdue it."
As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.”
8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
God also said to Noah and his sons,
9 "And as for me, look, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
“Listen carefully. I am now making a solemn promise to you and with your descendants,
10 and with every living creature that is with you: the flying creatures, and the tame animals, and every wild animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship.
and with all the living creatures that are with you—including the birds, the livestock, and the wild animals—every living creature on the earth that came out of the boat with you.
11 I will establish my covenant with you; and all flesh will never again be cut off by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."
This is the promise that I am making to you: I will never again destroy all living creatures by a flood, or destroy everything else on the earth by a flood.”
12 God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Then God said to him, “This is the sign to guarantee that I will keep the promise that I am making to you and to all living creatures, a promise that I will keep forever:
13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
[From time to time] I will put a rainbow in the sky. It will remind me of my promise that I have made to you and everything on the earth.
14 It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
it will remind me about the promise that I have made to you and all living creatures, my promise that there will never again be a flood that will destroy all living creatures.
16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between me and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
Whenever there is a rainbow in the sky, I will see it, and I will think about the promise that I have made to every living creature that is upon the earth, a promise that I will keep forever.”
17 God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
Then God said to Noah, “The rainbow will be the sign of the promise that I have made to all the creatures that live on the earth.”
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
The sons of Noah who came out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham later became the father of Canaan.
19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
20 Noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard.
Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
[When they later produced grapes, he made wine from the grapes]. One day, when he drank too much of the wine, he became drunk, and he lay naked in his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father lying naked in the tent. So he went outside and told his two older brothers what he had seen.
23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned the other way, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
Then Shem and Japheth took a large cloth and placed it across their backs, and walked backwards into the tent. They covered their father’s naked body with the cloth. Their faces were turned away from their father, so they did not see him naked.
24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
When Noah woke up [and was sober again], he found out how wrongfully Ham, his youngest son, had behaved toward him.
25 He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers."
He said, “I am cursing Ham’s youngest son, Canaan, and his descendants. They will be like slaves to their uncles.
26 He said, "Blessed be the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.
I will ask God to enlarge the territory that belongs to Japheth, and allow his descendants to live peacefully among the descendants of Shem [MTY].
27 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant."
And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, then he died.
He died when he was 950 years old.
