Genesis 8–9

¹And God remembereth Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which are with him in the ark, and God causeth a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside, ²and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens. ³And turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

⁴And the ark resteth, in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat; ⁵and the waters have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.

⁶And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah openeth the window of the ark which he made, ⁷and he sendeth forth the raven, and it goeth out, going out and turning back till the drying of the waters from off the earth. ⁸And he sendeth forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground, ⁹and the dove hath not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turneth back unto him, unto the ark, for waters are on the face of all the earth, and he putteth out his hand, and taketh her, and bringeth her in unto him, unto the ark. ¹⁰And he stayeth yet other seven days, and addeth to send forth the dove from the ark; ¹¹and the dove cometh in unto him at even-time, and lo, an olive leaf torn off in her mouth; and Noah knoweth that the waters have been lightened from off the earth. ¹²And he stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more.

¹³And it cometh to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, in the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turneth aside the covering of the ark, and looketh, and lo, the face of the ground hath been dried. ¹⁴And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.

¹⁵And God speaketh unto Noah, saying, ‘Go out from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee; ¹⁶every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, among fowl, and among cattle, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with thee; ¹⁷and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.’ ¹⁸And Noah goeth out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him; ¹⁹every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the ark.

²⁰And Noah buildeth an altar to Jehovah, and taketh of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and causeth burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar; ²¹and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, ‘I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done; ²²during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.’

Chapter 9

¹And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth; ²and 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. ³Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole; ⁴only flesh in its life—its blood—ye do not eat.

⁵‘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; ⁶whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man. ⁷And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.’

⁸And God speaketh unto Noah, and unto his sons with him, saying, ⁹‘And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you, ¹⁰and 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. ¹¹And 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.’

¹²And 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; ¹³My bow I have given in the cloud, and it hath been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth; ¹⁴and it hath come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath been seen in the cloud, ¹⁵and 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; ¹⁶and 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.’ ¹⁷And 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.’

¹⁸And the sons of Noah who are going out of the ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan. ¹⁹These three are sons of Noah, and from these hath all the earth been overspread. ²⁰And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard, ²¹and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent. ²²And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without. ²³And 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.

²⁴And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth that which his young son hath done to him, ²⁵and saith: ‘Cursed is Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.’ ²⁶And he saith: ‘Blessed of Jehovah my God is Shem, And Canaan is servant to him. ²⁷God doth give beauty to Japheth, And he dwelleth in tents of Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.’

²⁸And Noah liveth after the deluge three hundred and fifty years; ²⁹and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dieth.

Chapter 10