Genesis 9 (TRV)

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

2 And the fear of you and the dread of you will be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that moves on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. Just like the green herbs, I have given you all things.

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

5 And surely for the blood of your lives, at the hand of every beast I will require it, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed; because, in the image of God He made man.

7 And you all, you be fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply in it.”

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

9 “And I, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you,

10 and with every living creature that is with you: of the birds, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

11 And I will establish My covenant with you, neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither will there be a flood to destroy the earth any more.”

12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for the sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.

14 It will be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud;

15 and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no longer become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 And the rainbow will be in the cloud, and I will look on it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

17 And 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.”

18 And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

19 These are the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

20 And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.

21 And he drank of the wine and was drunk, and he was uncovered in his tent.

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

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

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

25 Then he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he will be to his brethren.”

26 And he said, “Blessed be the LORD God of Shem, and Canaan will be his servant.

27 God will enlarge Japheth, and he will dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan will be his servant.”

28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.