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.
| خدا، نوح و پسرانش را برکت داد و به ایشان فرمود: «بارور و زیاد شوید و زمین را پُر سازید. |
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.
| همهٔ حیوانات و خزندگان زمین، پرندگان هوا و ماهیان دریا از شما خواهند ترسید، زیرا همهٔ آنها را زیر سلطهٔ شما قرار داده‌ام. |
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.
| من آنها را برای خوراک به شما داده‌ام، همان‌طور که گیاهان سبز را به شما بخشیدم. |
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].
| اما گوشت را با خونش که بدان حیات می‌بخشد نخورید. |
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
| و من تاوان خون شما را باز می‌ستانم. آن را از هر جانوری باز می‌ستانم. تاوان جان انسان را از دست همنوعش نیز باز می‌ستانم. |
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].
| هر که خون انسانی را بریزد، خون او نیز به دست انسان ریخته خواهد شد؛ زیرا خدا انسان را به صورت خود آفرید. |
7 As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.”
| و اما شما، فرزندان زیاد تولید کنید و زمین را پُر سازید.» |
8 God also said to Noah and his sons,
| سپس خدا به نوح و پسرانش فرمود: |
9 “Listen carefully. I am now making a solemn promise to you and with your descendants,
| «من با شما و با نسلهای آیندهٔ شما عهد می‌بندم، |
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.
| و نیز با تمام حیواناتی که با شما در کشتی بودند یعنی همۀ پرندگان، چارپایان و جانوران. |
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.”
| بله، من با شما عهد می‌بندم که بعد از این هرگز موجودات زنده را به‌وسیلۀ طوفان هلاک نکنم و زمین را نیز دیگر بر اثر طوفان خراب ننمایم. |
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:
| این است نشان عهد جاودانی من: |
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.
| رنگین‌کمان خود را در ابرها می‌گذارم و این نشان عهدی خواهد بود که من با جهان بسته‌ام. |
14 When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
| وقتی ابرها را بالای زمین بگسترانم و رنگین‌کمان دیده شود، |
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.
| آنگاه قولی را که به شما و تمام جانداران داده‌ام به یاد خواهم آورد و دیگر هرگز تمام موجودات زنده به‌وسیلهٔ طوفان هلاک نخواهند شد. |
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.”
| وقتی رنگین‌کمان را در ابرها ببینم، عهد جاودانی میان خدا و هر موجود زنده بر زمین را به یاد خواهم آورد.» |
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.”
| سپس خدا به نوح گفت: «این رنگین‌کمان نشان عهدی است که من با تمام موجودات زندهٔ روی زمین می‌بندم.» |
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham later became the father of Canaan.
| سه پسر نوح که از کشتی خارج شدند، سام و حام و یافث بودند. (حام پدر قوم کنعان است.) |
19 All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
| همه قومهای دنیا از سه پسر نوح به وجود آمدند. |
20 Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
| نوح به کار کشاورزی مشغول شد و تاکستانی غرس نمود. |
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.
| روزی که شراب زیاد نوشیده بود، در حالت مستی در خیمه‌اش برهنه خوابید. |
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.
| حام، پدر کنعان، برهنگی پدر خود را دید و بیرون رفته به دو برادرش خبر داد. |
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.
| سام و یافث با شنیدن این خبر، ردایی روی شانه‌های خود انداخته عقب‌عقب به طرف پدرشان رفتند تا برهنگی او را نبینند. سپس او را با آن ردا پوشانیدند. |
24 When Noah woke up [and was sober again], he found out how wrongfully Ham, his youngest son, had behaved toward him.
| وقتی نوح به حال عادی برگشت و فهمید که حام چه کرده است، |
25 He said, “I am cursing Ham’s youngest son, Canaan, and his descendants. They will be like slaves to their uncles.
| گفت: «کنعان ملعون باد. برادران خود را بندهٔ بندگان باشد.» |
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].
| و نیز گفت: «متبارک باد یهوه، خدای سام! کنعان بندهٔ او باشد. |
27 And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
| خدا زمین یافث را وسعت بخشد، و او را شریک سعادت سام گرداند، و کنعان بندهٔ او باشد.» |
28 Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
| پس از طوفان، نوح ۳۵۰ سال دیگر عمر کرد |
29 He died when he was 950 years old.
| و در سن ۹۵۰ سالگی وفات یافت. |
