Genesis 9

9And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, ^aBe fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. ²And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. ^3bEvery moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the ^cgreen herb have I given you all things. ⁴But flesh with the ^dlife thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. ⁵And surely your blood of your lives will I require; ^eat the hand of every beast will I require it, and ^fat the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. ^6gWhoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: ^hfor in the image of God made he man. ⁷And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

⁸And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹And I, ⁱbehold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; ¹⁰And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. ¹¹And ^kI will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. ¹²And God said, ^lThis is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: ¹³I do set ^mmy bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that ⁿthe bow shall be seen in the cloud: ¹⁵And ^oI 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. ¹⁶And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember ^pthe everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. ¹⁷And 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.

¹⁸And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: ^qand Ham is the father of ^†Canaan. ¹⁹These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. ²⁰And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: ²¹And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. ²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. ²³And 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. ²⁴And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. ²⁵And he said,

^rCursed be Canaan;

^sA servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

²⁶And he said,

Blessed be ^tthe Lord God of Shem;

And Canaan shall be ^||his servant.

²⁷God shall ^||enlarge Japheth,

And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem;

And Canaan shall be his servant.

²⁸And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. ²⁹And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.