• Covenant of the Rainbow

  • 1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
  • 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.
  • 3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, as I gave the green plant.
  • 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
  • 5 I certainly will require your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it. And from every person, from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.
  • 6 “Whoever sheds human blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made mankind.
  • 7 “As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
  • 8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
  • 9 “Now behold, I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;
  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • 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 all future generations;
  • 13 I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
  • 14 It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth, that the rainbow 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 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.”
  • 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.”
  • 18 Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, 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 populated.
  • 20 Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.
  • 21 He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
  • 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
  • 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 turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
  • 24 When Noah awoke from his wine, 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 He also said, “Blessed be the Lord, The God of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant.
  • 27 “May God enlarge Japheth, And may he live in the tents of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant.”
  • 28 Noah lived 350 years after the flood.
  • 29 So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.