Genesis 9
1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “I want you to have many children who will live all over the earth.
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.
2 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.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, with all with which the ground teems, and all the fishes of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
3 Just as I previously said you could eat green plants for food, now I am saying you can eat everything that lives and moves.
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all.
4 [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].
But flesh with the life of it, which is the blood of it, ye shall not eat.
5 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
And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
6 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].
Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man.
7 As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.”
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply on it.
8 God also said to Noah and his sons,
And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 “Listen carefully. I am now making a solemn promise to you and with your descendants,
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
10 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.
and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
11 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.”
And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor shall there be a flood any more to destroy the earth.
12 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:
And 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:
13 [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.
I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.
15 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.
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 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.”
And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 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.”
And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham later became the father of Canaan.
And the sons of Noah, who went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.
19 All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was spread over.
20 Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
And Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
21 [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.
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered within his tent.
22 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.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
23 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.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
24 When Noah woke up [and was sober again], he found out how wrongfully Ham, his youngest son, had behaved toward him.
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
25 He said, “I am cursing Ham’s youngest son, Canaan, and his descendants. They will be like slaves to their uncles.
And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers.
26 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].
And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant.
27 And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant.
28 Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
29 He died when he was 950 years old.
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
