Genesis 9

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

²The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens , upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea . Into your hand they are delivered .

³Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants , I give you everything .

⁴But you shall not eat flesh with its life , that is, its blood .

⁵And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning : from every beast I will require it and from man . From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man .

⁶Whoever sheds the blood of man , by man shall his blood be shed , for God made man in his own image .

⁷And you, be fruitful and multiply , increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.

⁸Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

⁹Behold , I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,

¹⁰and with every living creature that is with you, the birds , the livestock , and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark ; it is for every beast of the earth .

¹¹I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood , and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth .

¹²And God said , This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations :

¹³I have set my bow in the cloud , and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth .

¹⁴When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds ,

¹⁵I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh . And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh .

¹⁶When the bow is in the clouds , I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth .

¹⁷God said to Noah , This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth .

¹⁸The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem , Ham , and Japheth . ( Ham was the father of Canaan .)

¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah , and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed .

²⁰Noah began to be a man of the soil , and he planted a vineyard .

²¹He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent .

²²And Ham , the father of Canaan , saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside .

²³Then Shem and Japheth took a garment , laid it on both their shoulders , and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father . Their faces were turned backward , and they did not see their father’s nakedness .

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

²⁵he said , Cursed be Canaan ; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers .

²⁶He also said , Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem ; and let Canaan be his servant .

²⁷May God enlarge Japheth , and let him dwell in the tents of Shem , and let Canaan be his servant .

²⁸After the flood Noah lived 350 years .

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