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 blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith 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 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.
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 — ye 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].
whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath 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 ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'
8 God also said to Noah and his sons,
And God speaketh unto Noah, and unto his sons with him, saying,
9 “Listen carefully. I am now making a solemn promise to you and with your descendants,
'And I, lo, 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 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.
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 any more cut off by waters of a deluge, and there is not any more a deluge 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:
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;
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 hath 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 hath come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath 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 become no more a deluge 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 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.'
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 saith unto Noah, 'This [is] a token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that [is] 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 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 hath all the earth been overspread.
20 Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth 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 drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth 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, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth 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.
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.
24 When Noah woke up [and was sober again], he found out how wrongfully Ham, his youngest son, had behaved toward him.
And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth that which his young son hath 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 saith: 'Cursed [is] Canaan, Servant of servants he is to 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 saith: 'Blessed of Jehovah my God [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 doth give beauty to Japheth, And he dwelleth in tents of Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.'
28 Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
And Noah liveth after the deluge 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 dieth.
