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 Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase 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 let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea 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.
And every thing that moveth and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:
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].
Saving that flesh with blood you 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
For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I 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].
Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.
7 As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.”
But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth, and fill it.
8 God also said to Noah and his sons,
Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him,
9 “Listen carefully. I am now making a solemn promise to you and with your descendants,
Behold I will 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 soul that is with you, as well in all birds as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts 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.”
I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste 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 give between me and you, and to every living soul 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 will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me, and between the earth.
14 When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds:
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 with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of 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 clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which 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 Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh 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 Noe who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.
19 All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.
20 Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
And Noe, a husbandman, began to till the ground, 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 drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in 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.
Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.
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.
But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not 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 Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger 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.
He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
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 the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.
27 And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.
28 Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years:
29 He died when he was 950 years old.
And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
