Genesis 9
1 And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;
God blessed Noah and his sons, and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth!
2 and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea — into your hand they have been given.
All animals will be very afraid of you—this includes all the birds, all the creatures that run along the ground, and all the fish in the sea. You are in charge of them.
3 Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;
Every living creature that moves will be food for you, as well as all the green plants.
4 only flesh in its life — its blood — ye do not eat.
But do not eat meat with the lifeblood still in it.
5 '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;
If your blood is shed by any animal, I will call it to account; and if your blood is shed by any person, I will call that person to account.
6 whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.
Whoever sheds the blood of a human being will have their blood shed by human beings. For God made human beings in his image.
7 And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'
Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth—have many descendants!”
8 And God speaketh unto Noah, and unto his sons with him, saying,
Then God told Noah and his sons who were there with him,
9 'And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
“Listen, I'm making my agreement with you and your descendants,
10 and with every living creature which [is] with you, among fowl, among cattle, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going out of the ark — to every beast of the earth.
and with all the animals around you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals of the earth—every animal that accompanied you on the ark.
11 And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not any more cut off by waters of a deluge, and there is not any more a deluge to destroy the earth.'
In my agreement I'm promising you that I won't ever again destroy all life by means of a flood—there won't be a destructive flood like this again.”
12 And God saith, 'This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that [is] with you, to generations age-during;
Then God said, “I'm going to give you a sign to confirm the agreement I'm making between me and you and all living creatures, an agreement that will last for all generations.
13 My bow I have given in the cloud, and it hath been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;
I've placed my rainbow in the clouds, and this will be the sign of my agreement with you and with all life on earth.
14 and it hath come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath been seen in the cloud,
Whenever I make clouds form over the earth and the rainbow appears,
15 and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters become no more a deluge to destroy all flesh;
it will remind me of my agreement between me and you and every kind of living creature that floodwaters won't ever again destroy all life.
16 and the bow hath been in the cloud, and I have seen it — to remember the covenant age-during between God and every living creature among all flesh which [is] on the earth.'
I will see the rainbow in the clouds and it will remind me of the eternal agreement between God and every kind of living creature that lives on the earth.”
17 And God saith unto Noah, 'This [is] a token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.'
Then God told Noah, “This is the sign of the agreement I'm making between me and every creature on earth.”
18 And the sons of Noah who are going out of the ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan.
Noah's sons who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of the Canaanites.)
19 These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these hath all the earth been overspread.
All the people who are spread over the world are descended from these three sons of Noah.
20 And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard,
Noah started to cultivate the ground as a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
21 and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent.
He drank some of the wine he'd produced, got drunk, and fell asleep in his tent, naked.
22 And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's private parts and went and told his two brothers who were outside.
23 And Shem taketh — 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.
Shem and Japheth picked up a cloak and, holding it over their shoulders, walked in backwards and covered up their father's privates. They made sure to look the other way so they wouldn't see their father's privates.
24 And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth that which his young son hath done to him,
When Noah woke up from his drunken sleep, he discovered what his youngest son had done,
25 and saith: 'Cursed [is] Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'
and said, “May Canaan be cursed! He will be the lowest kind of slave and will serve his brothers!”
26 And he saith: 'Blessed of Jehovah my God [is] Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.
Then Noah continued, “May the Lord be blessed, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.
27 God doth give beauty to Japheth, And he dwelleth in tents of Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.'
May God give Japtheth plenty of space to accommodate his many descendants, and may they live at peace among Shem's people, and may Canaan also be his slave.”
28 And Noah liveth after the deluge three hundred and fifty years;
Noah lived for another 350 years after the flood.
29 and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dieth.
Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
