1 Then God blessed Noah and his
sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and
increase in number and fill the earth.
2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon
all the beasts of the earth and all the
birds of the air, upon every creature that
moves along the ground, and upon all
the fish of the sea; they are given into
your hands.
3 Everything that lives and moves will be
food for you. Just as I gave you the
green plants, I now give you everything.
4 "But you must not eat meat that has its
lifeblood still in it.
5 And for your lifeblood I will surely
demand an accounting. I will demand an
accounting from every animal. And from
each man, too, I will demand an
accounting for the life of his fellow man.
6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by
man shall his blood be shed; for in the
image of God has God made man.
7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in
number; multiply on the earth and
increase upon it."
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons
with him:
9 "I now establish my covenant with you
and with your descendants after you
10 and with every living creature that was
with you-the birds, the livestock and all
the wild animals, all those that came out
of the ark with you-every living creature
on earth.
11 I establish my covenant with you:
Never again will all life be cut off by the
waters of a flood; never again will there
be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said, "This is the sign of the
covenant I am making between me and
you and every living creature with you, a
covenant for all generations to come:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds,
and it will be the sign of the covenant
between me and the earth.
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth
and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
15 I will remember my covenant between
me and you and all living creatures of
every kind. Never again will the waters
become a flood to destroy all life.
16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the
clouds, I will see it and remember the
everlasting covenant between God and
all living creatures of every kind on the
earth."
17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign
of the covenant I have established
between me and all life on the earth."
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the
ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth.
(Ham was the father of Canaan.)
19 These were the three sons of Noah,
and from them came the people who
were scattered over the earth.
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to
plant a vineyard.
21 When he drank some of its wine, he
became drunk and lay uncovered inside
his tent.
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his
father's nakedness and told his two
brothers outside.
23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment
and laid it across their shoulders; then
they walked in backward and covered
their father's nakedness. Their faces
were turned the other way so that they
would not see their father's nakedness.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and
found out what his youngest son had
done to him,
25 he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The
lowest of slaves will he be to his
brothers."
26 He also said, "Blessed be the Lord ,
the God of Shem! May Canaan be the
slave of Shem.
27 May God extend the territory of
Japheth ; may Japheth live in the tents
of Shem, and may Canaan be his
slave."
28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
29 Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and
then he died.
