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 blesses Noah and his sons, and says 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 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.
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 creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;
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].
only flesh in its life—its blood—you do 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 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;
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 is his blood shed: for in the image of God has 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 fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.”
8 God also said to Noah and his sons,
And God speaks 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 am establishing 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 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.
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 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.”
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 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;
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.
My bow I have given in the cloud, and it has been for a token 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 has come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow has been 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 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;
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 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.”
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 says to Noah, “This [is] a token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that [is] on 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 are going out of the Ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan.
19 All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these has all the earth been overspread.
20 Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
And Noah remains a man of the ground, and plants 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 drinks of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovers himself in the midst of the 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, father of Canaan, sees the nakedness of his father, and declares to 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 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.
24 When Noah woke up [and was sober again], he found out how wrongfully Ham, his youngest son, had behaved toward him.
And Noah awakens from his wine, and knows that which his young son has 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 says: “Cursed [is] Canaan, Servant of servants he is 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 says: “Blessed of my God YHWH [is] Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.
27 And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
God gives beauty to Japheth, And he dwells in tents of Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.”
28 Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
And Noah lives after the flood three hundred and fifty years;
29 He died when he was 950 years old.
and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dies.
