Genesis 9

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

And the fear of you and the dread of you will be on every living thing of the earth, including on every bird of the sky, on everything that moves on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are given. \*

Every moving creature that lives will be for you for food. Just as the green plants, I give you everything.

But you must not eat flesh with its life, {that is,} its blood. \*

And surely I will demand your blood for your lives. From the hand of every living thing I will demand it, and from the hand of mankind; from the hand of a man {who kills} his brother, I will demand the life of the man. 6 The one shedding the blood of a man, by mankind his blood must be shed, because in the image of God he made mankind.

And you, be fruitful and multiply. Abound on the earth and multiply on it.” \*

Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

“And I, behold, I am establishing my covenant with you and with your offspring after you,

and with every living creature that {is} with you: with the birds, with the livestock, and with every living thing of the earth with you, from all that came out of the ark to every living thing of the earth. \*

And I am establishing my covenant with you that never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Then God said, “This {is} the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and every living creature that {is} with you, for generations forever:

I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. \*

And it will be when I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow is seen in the clouds,

then I will remember my covenant that {is} between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and never again will waters become a flood to destroy all flesh. \*

So the rainbow will be in the clouds, and I will see it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature, with all flesh that {is} on the earth.”

Then God said to Noah, “That {is} the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that {is} on the earth.” \*

And the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham, he {was} the father of Canaan.

Those three {were} the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was overspread. \*

Now Noah, a man of the soil, began and planted a vineyard.

Then he drank some of the wine, and he became drunk, and he uncovered himself inside his tent. \*

Then Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside.

But Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it across the shoulders of the two of them and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned away, so that they did not see the nakedness of their father. \*

Then Noah woke up from his wine, and he learned what his youngest son had done to him,

and he said, “Cursed be Canaan! He will be a slave of slaves for his brothers.” \*

Then he said, “Praised be God, the God of Shem! And may Canaan be a slave for him. 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem. And may Canaan be a slave for him.” \*

And after the flood, Noah lived 350 years.

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