Genesis 9
1 God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Have children, increase in number, and fill the earth.
2 All the wild creatures on land, every bird in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and every fish in the sea will fear and dread you. They have been handed over to you.
3 Every living thing that moves may be food for you. I give you all of them, just as I gave you the green plants.
4 But do not eat meat with its life—that is, its blood—still in it.
5 I will demand an account for your blood, for your lives. I will require it from every animal, and from each human being I will require an account for the life of another human being, his brother.
6 Whoever sheds human blood will have his own blood shed by another human, because God made humankind in his image.
7 As for you, have children and increase in number; spread across the earth and multiply there.”
8 God spoke to Noah and his sons who were with him:
9 “Here I am, establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
10 and with every living creature beside you: the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals with you—all that came out of the ark, every animal on earth.
11 I establish my covenant with you: never again will all living flesh be wiped out by floodwaters, and never again will a flood destroy the earth.”
12 God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, for all generations to come:
13 I have placed my bow in the clouds; it will mark the covenant between me and the earth.
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth, the bow will be seen among them.
15 Then I will remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature—all flesh—and the waters will never again become a flood that destroys all living flesh.”
16 “When the bow is in the clouds, I will look at it and remember the lasting covenant between God and every living creature, all flesh on the earth.”
17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all flesh on the earth.”
18 Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was Canaan’s father.
19 Those three were Noah’s sons, and the whole earth was populated from them.
20 Noah, a man of the soil, began cultivating a vineyard.
21 He drank some wine, became drunk, and lay exposed inside his tent.
22 Ham, Canaan’s father, saw his father naked and told his two brothers, who were outside.
23 Shem and Japheth took a cloak and laid it across both their shoulders. They walked backward and covered their father’s nakedness, keeping their faces turned away so they would not see him naked.
24 When Noah came around from the wine, he learned what his youngest son had done to him.
25 He said, “Canaan is cursed! He will be the lowest servant to his brothers.”
26 He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan serve them.
27 May God make room for Japheth, and may he live in Shem’s tents. May Canaan serve them.”
28 Noah lived 350 years after the flood.
29 Noah’s entire life lasted 950 years, and then he died.
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