Genesis 9

CHAPTER 9

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “^aBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

²“And the fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the ¹sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.

³“Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; ^aas with the green plant, I give all to you.

⁴“However, flesh with its life, that is, ^aits blood, you shall not eat.

⁵“Surely I will require ^1ayour lifeblood; ^2bfrom every living thing I will require it. And ³from every man, ⁴from each man’s brother I will require the life of man.

⁶“^aWhoever sheds man’s blood,

By man his blood shall be shed,

For ^bin the image of God

He made man.

⁷“As for you, ^abe fruitful and multiply;

¹Swarm on the earth and multiply in it.”

⁸Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

⁹“As for Me, behold, ^aI establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you;

¹⁰and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

¹¹“Indeed I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall ^anever again be cut off by the water of the flood, ^band there shall never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

¹²Then God said, “This is ^athe sign of the covenant which I am giving to be between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for ¹all successive generations;

¹³I put My ^abow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.

¹⁴“And it will be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,

¹⁵and ^aI will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and ^bnever again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶“So the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the ^aeverlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

¹⁷And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Noah’s Three Sons

¹⁸Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and ^aHam was the father of Canaan.

¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and ^afrom these the whole earth was scattered abroad.

²⁰Then Noah began to be ¹a man of the land and planted a vineyard.

²¹And he drank of the wine and ^abecame drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

²²Then Ham, the father of Canaan, ^asaw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

²³But Shem and Japheth took the garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

²⁴Then Noah awoke from his wine, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

²⁵So he said,

“^aCursed be Canaan;

^1bA servant of servants

He shall be to his brothers.”

²⁶And he said,

“^aBlessed be Yahweh,

The God of Shem;

And let Canaan be ¹his servant.

²⁷“^aMay God enlarge Japheth,

And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;

And let Canaan be ¹his servant.”

²⁸And Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

²⁹So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.