1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. 3Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things. 4But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it. 5And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

6Whoever sheds the blood of man,

by man his blood will be shed;

for in His own image

God has made mankind.

7But as for you,

be fruitful and multiply;

spread out across the earth

and multiply upon it.”

8Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, 9“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you, 10and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark. 11And 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.”

12And 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: 13I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

14Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”

17So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”

Noah’s Shame and Canaan’s Curse

18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. 19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

20Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded #9:20 Or was the first to plant a vineyard. 21But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent. 22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

23Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

24When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, 25he said,

“Cursed be Canaan!

A servant of servants

shall he be to his brothers.”

Shem’s Blessing and Noah’s Death

26He also declared:

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem!

May Canaan be the servant of Shem.

27May God expand the territory of Japheth;#9:27 Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for expand.

may he dwell in the tents of Shem,

and may Canaan be his servant.”

28After the flood, Noah lived 350 years. 29So Noah 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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