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Genesis 9

Covenant of the Rainbow

1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “ ^aBe 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, ^bas I gave the green plant. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, ^cits blood. 5 I certainly will require ^{▼▼Lit your blood of your lives
,} ^eyour lifeblood; ^{▼▼Lit from the hand of
,} ^gfrom every animal I will require it. And ^{▼▼Lit from the hand of}from every person, ^{▼▼Lit from the hand of}from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.

6 “ ^jWhoever sheds human blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For ^kin the image of God
He made mankind.
7 “As for you, ^lbe fruitful and multiply;
^{▼▼Lit Swarm in the earth}Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9 “Now behold, ⁿI Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your ^{▼▼Lit seed}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 ^pnever again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, ^qnor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 God said, “This is ^rthe sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for ^{▼▼Or everlasting generations}all future generations; 13 I have set My ^trainbow in the cloud, and it shall ^{▼▼Lit be for}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 ^vI will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and ^wnever 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 ^xeverlasting 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 ^yHam was the father of Canaan. 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and ^zfrom these the whole earth was ^{▼▼Lit scattered}populated.

20 Then Noah began ^{▼▼Lit to be a farmer}farming and planted a vineyard. 21 He drank some of the wine and ^acbecame drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, ^adsaw 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 ^{▼▼Lit backward}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,

“ ^afCursed be Canaan;
^{▼▼I.e., The lowest of servants
,} ^ahA servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers.”
26 He also said,

“ ^aiBlessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem;
And may Canaan be ^{▼▼Or their}his servant.
27 “ ^akMay God enlarge Japheth,
And may he live in the tents of Shem;
And may Canaan be ^{▼▼Or their}his servant.”
28 Noah lived 350 years after the flood. 29 So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.