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.
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, 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.
The fear of you and the dread of you will be upon every living animal on the earth, upon every bird of the sky, upon everything that goes low on the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea. They are given 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 will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
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 you must not eat meat with its life—that is its blood—in it.
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
But for your blood, the life that is in your blood, I will require payment. From the hand of every animal I will require it. From the hand of any man, that is, from the hand of one who has murdered his brother, I will require an accounting for the life of that 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 will his blood be shed, for it was in the image of God that 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.”
As for you, be fruitful and multiply, spread throughout the earth and multiply on it.”
8 God also said to Noah and his sons,
Then 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,
“As for me, listen! I am going to confirm my covenant with you and with your descendants 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, with the birds, the livestock, and every creature of the earth with you, from all that came out of the ark, to every living creature on 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 hereby confirm my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be destroyed by the waters of a flood. Never again will there be a flood 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:
God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future 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 have set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
14 When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
It will come about when I bring a cloud over the earth and the rainbow is 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.
then I will call to mind my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. The waters will never again 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.”
The rainbow will be in the clouds and I will see it, in order to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that 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.”
Then God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have confirmed 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.
The sons of Noah that came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was 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 populated.
20 Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
Noah began to be a farmer, and he 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.
He drank some of the wine and became drunk. He was lying 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.
Then 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.
So Shem and Japheth took a robe and laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned the other way, so 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.
When Noah awoke from his wine, he learned 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.
So he said, “Cursed be Canaan. May he be a servant to his brothers' servants.”
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].
He also said, “May Yahweh, the God of Shem, be blessed, and may Canaan be his servant.
27 And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
May God extend the territory of Japheth, and let him make his home in the tents of Shem. May Canaan be his servant.”
28 Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
After the flood, Noah lived three hundred fifty years.
29 He died when he was 950 years old.
All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
