9Genesis 9

God's Promise to Noah

1God said to Noah and his sons: I am giving you my blessing. Have a lot of children and grandchildren, so people will live everywhere on this earth.Select Genesis 9:1

2All animals, birds, reptiles, and fish will be afraid of you. I have placed them under your control,Select Genesis 9:2

3and I have given them to you for food. From now on, you may eat them, as well as the green plants that you have always eaten.Select Genesis 9:3

4But life is in the blood, and you must not eat any meat that still has blood in it.Select Genesis 9:4

6I created humans to be like me, and I will punish any animal or person that takes a human life. If an animal kills someone, that animal must die. And if a person takes the life of another, that person must be put to death.Select Genesis 9:6

7I want you and your descendants to have many children, so people will live everywhere on earth.Select Genesis 9:7

8Again, God said to Noah and his sons:Select Genesis 9:8

9I am going to make a solemn promise to you and to everyone who will live after you.Select Genesis 9:9

10This includes the birds and the animals that came out of the boat.Select Genesis 9:10

11I promise every living creature that the earth and those living on it will never again be destroyed by a flood.Select Genesis 9:11

13The rainbow that I have put in the sky will be my sign to you and to every living creature on earth. It will remind you that I will keep this promise forever.Select Genesis 9:13

14When I send clouds over the earth, and a rainbow appears in the sky,Select Genesis 9:14

15I will remember my promise to you and to all other living creatures. Never again will I let floodwaters destroy all life.Select Genesis 9:15

16When I see the rainbow in the sky, I will always remember the promise that I have made to every living creature.Select Genesis 9:16

17The rainbow will be the sign of that solemn promise.Select Genesis 9:17

Noah and His Family

18Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, left the boat. Ham later had a son named Canaan.Select Genesis 9:18

19All people on earth are descendants of Noah's three sons.Select Genesis 9:19

20Noah farmed the land and was the first to plant a vineyard.Select Genesis 9:20

21One day he got drunk and was lying naked in his tent.Select Genesis 9:21

22Ham entered the tent and saw him naked, then went back outside and told his brothers.Select Genesis 9:22

23Shem and Japheth put a robe over their shoulders and walked backwards into the tent. Without looking at their father, they placed it over his body.Select Genesis 9:23

24When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done,Select Genesis 9:24

25he said, “I now put a curse on Canaan! He will be the lowest slave of his brothers.Select Genesis 9:25

26I ask the Lord my God to bless Shem and make Canaan his slave.Select Genesis 9:26

27I pray God will give Japheth more and more land and let him take over the territory of Shem. May Canaan be his slave.”Select Genesis 9:27

28Noah lived 350 years after the floodSelect Genesis 9:28

29and died at the age of 950.Select Genesis 9:29