Genesis 9
1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, 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 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
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 lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
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 its life, that is, its blood, you shall 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 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will 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 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
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 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.”
8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
God also said to Noah and his sons,
9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring 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 birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal 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 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again 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 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 set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign 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 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
15 I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will 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 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on 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 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on 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 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 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 from these the whole earth was populated.
All the people on the earth are descended from those three sons of Noah.
20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
Noah was a farmer. He planted grapevines.
21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. 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 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
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 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see 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 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
When Noah woke up [and was sober again], he found out how wrongfully Ham, his youngest son, had behaved toward him.
25 He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
He said, “I am cursing Ham’s youngest son, Canaan, and his descendants. They will be like slaves to their uncles.
26 He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem. 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 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”
And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.”
28 Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.
He died when he was 950 years old.
