• 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
  • 2 And the fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.
  • 3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; as with the green plant, I give all to you.
  • 4 However, flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
  • 5 Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every living thing I will require it. And from every man, from each man’s brother I will require the life of man.
  • 6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.
  • 7 “As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Swarm on the earth and multiply in it.”
  • 8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
  • 9 “As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you;
  • 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
  • 11 Indeed I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, and there shall never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
  • 12 Then God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am giving to be between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;
  • 13 I put My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
  • 14 And it will be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow 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 never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
  • 16 So the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to 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.”

  • Noah’s Three Sons

  • 18 Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
  • 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was scattered abroad.
  • 20 Then Noah began to be a man of the land and planted a vineyard.
  • 21 And he drank of the wine and became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
  • 22 Then Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.
  • 23 But Shem and Japheth took the garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
  • 24 Then Noah awoke from his wine, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him.
  • 25 So he said, “Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers.”
  • 26 And he said, “Blessed be Yahweh, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.
  • 27 “May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.”
  • 28 And Noah lived 350 years after the flood.
  • 29 So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.