9Genesis 9

God's Covenant with Noah

1God blessed Noah and his sons and said, “Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.Select Genesis 9:1

2All the animals, birds, and fish will live in fear of you. They are all placed under your power.Select Genesis 9:2

3Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food.Select Genesis 9:3

4The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood.Select Genesis 9:4

5If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life.Select Genesis 9:5

6Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.Select Genesis 9:6

7“You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.”Select Genesis 9:7

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

9“I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants,Select Genesis 9:9

10and with all living beings—all birds and all animals—everything that came out of the boat with you.Select Genesis 9:10

11With these words I make my covenant with you: I promise that never again will all living beings be destroyed by a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.Select Genesis 9:11

12As a sign of this everlasting covenant which I am making with you and with all living beings,Select Genesis 9:12

13I am putting my bow in the clouds. It will be the sign of my covenant with the world.Select Genesis 9:13

14Whenever I cover the sky with clouds and the rainbow appears,Select Genesis 9:14

15I will remember my promise to you and to all the animals that a flood will never again destroy all living beings.Select Genesis 9:15

16When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between me and all living beings on earth.Select Genesis 9:16

17That is the sign of the promise which I am making to all living beings.”Select Genesis 9:17

Noah and His Sons

18The sons of Noah who went out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)Select Genesis 9:18

19These three sons of Noah were the ancestors of all the people on earth.Select Genesis 9:19

20Noah, who was a farmer, was the first man to plant a vineyard.Select Genesis 9:20

21After he drank some of the wine, he became drunk, took off his clothes, and lay naked in his tent.Select Genesis 9:21

22When Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked, he went out and told his two brothers.Select Genesis 9:22

23Then Shem and Japheth took a robe and held it behind them on their shoulders. They walked backward into the tent and covered their father, keeping their faces turned away so as not to see him naked.Select Genesis 9:23

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

25he said, “A curse on Canaan! He will be a slave to his brothers.Select Genesis 9:25

26Give praise to the Lord, the God of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Shem.Select Genesis 9:26

27May God cause Japheth to increase! May his descendants live with the people of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Japheth.”Select Genesis 9:27

28After the flood Noah lived 350 yearsSelect Genesis 9:28

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