Genesis 9
1 So 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 let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every living creature of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, —over everything that moveth along on the ground, and over all the fishes of the sea, —into your hand, have they been 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 As for every moving thing that hath life, yours, shall it be, for food, —Like the green herb, have I given you all things.
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 Yet flesh with the life thereof, the blood thereof, shall ye 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 your blood, of your lives, will I require, From the hand of every living creature, will I require it, —and from the hand of man From the hand of each one’s brother, will I require the life of man:
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 He that sheddeth man’s blood, by man, shall his blood be shed, —For, in the image of God, made he man.
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 Ye, therefore, be fruitful and multiply, swarm in the earth and multiply therein.
As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.”
8 And God spake unto Noah, and unto his sons with him saying:
God also said to Noah and his sons,
9 I, therefore, behold me! establishing my covenant with you, —and with your seed after you;
“Listen carefully. I am now making a solemn promise to you and with your descendants,
10 and with every living soul that is with you, of birds, of tame-beasts and of all wild-beasts of the earth that are with you, —of all coming forth out of the ark, even to all wild-beasts of the earth;
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 yea, I will establish my covenant with you, so that all flesh shall not be cut off any more, by reason of the waters of a flood, —neither shall there be any more 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 And God said, This, is the sign of the covenant which I am granting betwixt me and you, and every living soul that is with you, —to age-abiding 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 My bow, have I set in the cloud, —and it shall be for a sign of a covenant, betwixt 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 and it shall be when I draw a veil of cloud over the earth, —and the bow in the cloud appeareth,
When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
15 then will I remember my covenant which is betwixt me and you, and every living soul among all flesh, —that the waters may 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 so the bow shall be in the cloud, —and I will behold it, to remember an age-abiding covenant, between God, and every living soul among 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 And God said unto Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which 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 And the sons of Noah who came forth out of the ark, were—Shem and Ham and Japheth, —now, Ham, was 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 three, were the sons of Noah, —and from these, was all the earth overspread.
All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, —so he planted a vineyard:
Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
21 and dank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself in the midst of 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’s shame, —and told his two brethren 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 And Shem and Japheth took a mantle, and put it on the shoulder of them both and went backwards, and covered the shame of their father, but their faces were backwards, and the shame of their father, saw they not.
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 And Noah awoke from his wine, —and came to know 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 And he said, Accursed be Canaan, —a servant of servants, shall he be to his brethren!
He said, “I am cursing Ham’s youngest son, Canaan, and his descendants. They will be like slaves to their uncles.
26 And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, God of Shem, —And let Canaan be their 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 God give extension to Japheth, But make his habitation in the tents of Shem, And let Canaan be their servant.
And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
28 And Noah lived after the flood, —three hundred and fifty years:
Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
29 so, all the days of Noah, were—nine hundred and fifty years, —and he died.
He died when he was 950 years old.
