1Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Have many children; grow in number and fill the earth. 2Every animal on earth, every bird in the sky, every animal that crawls on the ground, and every fish in the sea will respect and fear you. I have given them to you.

3“Everything that moves, everything that is alive, is yours for food. Earlier I gave you the green plants, but now I give you everything for food. 4But you must not eat meat that still has blood in it, because blood gives life. 5I will demand blood for life. I will demand the life of any animal that kills a person, and I will demand the life of anyone who takes another person’s life.

6“Whoever kills a human being

will be killed by a human being,

because God made humans

in his own image.

7“As for you, Noah, I want you and your family to have many children, to grow in number on the earth, and to become many.”

8Then God said to Noah and his sons, 9“Now I am making my agreement with you and your people who will live after you, 10and with every living thing that is with you—the birds, the tame and the wild animals, and with everything that came out of the boat with you—with every living thing on earth. 11I make this agreement with you: I will never again destroy all living things by a flood. A flood will never again destroy the earth.”

12And God said, “This is the sign of the agreement between me and you and every living creature that is with you. 13I am putting my rainbow in the clouds as the sign of the agreement between me and the earth. 14When I bring clouds over the earth and a rainbow appears in them, 15I will remember my agreement between me and you and every living thing. Floods will never again destroy all life on the earth. 16When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and I will remember the agreement that continues forever between me and every living thing on the earth.”

17So God said to Noah, “The rainbow is a sign of the agreement that I made with all living things on earth.”

Noah and His Sons

18The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with him were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19These three men were Noah’s sons, and all the people on earth came from these three sons.

20Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard. 21When he drank wine made from his grapes, he became drunk and lay naked in his tent. 22Ham, the father of Canaan, looked at his naked father and told his brothers outside. 23Then Shem and Japheth got a coat and, carrying it on both their shoulders, they walked backwards into the tent and covered their father. They turned their faces away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

24Noah was sleeping because of the wine. When he woke up and learned what his youngest son, Ham, had done to him, 25he said,

“May there be a curse on Canaan!

May he be the lowest slave to his brothers.”

26Noah also said,

“May the Lord, the God of Shem, be praised!

May Canaan be Shem’s slave.

27May God give more land to Japheth.

May Japheth live in Shem’s tents,

and may Canaan be their slave.”

28After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29He lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

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Genesis 9

1¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every animal of the earth and upon every fowl of the heavens, upon all that moves upon the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.

3Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green grass I have given you all things.

4But flesh with the soul (or life) thereof, which is its blood, ye shall not eat.

5For surely your blood which is your souls I will require; at the hand of every animal I will require it and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother I will require the soul (or life) of man.

6Whoever sheds man’s blood in man, his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God is man made.

7And you, be ye fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply therein.

8¶ And God spoke unto Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

9Behold that I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you

10and with every living soul that is with you, of the fowl, of the animals, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark to every animal of the earth,

11that I will establish my covenant with you, that all flesh shall not be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

12¶ And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for perpetual ages:

13I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

14And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall appear in the clouds;

15and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth.

17And God said unto Noah, This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

18¶ And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.

19These are the three sons of Noah; and of them was the whole earth overspread.

20And Noah began to till the ground, and he planted a vineyard;

21and he drank of the wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren outside.

23Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

24¶ And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be unto his brethren.

26And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his slave.

27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his slave.

28¶ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

29And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

The Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB) by Ransom Press International

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