Genesis 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish 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 the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air; with all wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered.
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 Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.
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 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] 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, [the blood] of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’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 Whoso 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 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly 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 to his sons with him, saying,
God also said to Noah and his sons,
9 And I, behold, I establish 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 creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast 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 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be 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 token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual 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 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between 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 come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,
When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
15 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.
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 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.
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 token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon 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, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is 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 of these was the whole earth overspread.
All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
21 and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within 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 the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
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 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 saw not their father’s nakedness.
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 knew what his youngest son had done unto 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, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto 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 the LORD, the God of Shem; And let Canaan be his 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 enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his 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 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
He died when he was 950 years old.
