9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
9:2 The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you.
9:3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, as I gave the green plant.
9:4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
9:5 I certainly will require ①your lifeblood; ②from every animal I will require it. And ③from every person, ④from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.
▷ ①Lit your blood of your lives ②Lit from the hand of ③Lit from the hand of ④Lit from the hand of
9:6 Whoever sheds human blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made mankind.
9:7 As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
①Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
▷ ①Lit Swarm in the earth
9:8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
9:9 “Now behold, I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your ①descendants after you;
▷ ①Lit seed
9:10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth.
9:11 I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
9:12 God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for ①all future generations;
▷ ①Or everlasting generations
9:13 I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall ①serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
▷ ①Lit be for
9:14 It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
9:15 and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
9:16 When the rainbow is in the cloud, then I will look at it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
9:17 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.”
9:18 Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was ①populated.
▷ ①Lit scattered
9:20 Then Noah began ①farming and planted a vineyard.
▷ ①Lit to be a farmer
9:21 He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
9:23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it on both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were ①turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
▷ ①Lit backward
9:24 When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.
9:25 So he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;
①A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers.”
▷ ①I.e., The lowest of servants
9:26 He also said,
“Blessed be the LORD,
The God of Shem;
And may Canaan be ①his servant.
▷ ①Or their
9:27 May God enlarge Japheth,
And may he live in the tents of Shem;
And may Canaan be ①his servant.”
▷ ①Or their
9:28 Noah lived 350 years after the flood.
9:29 So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.