Genesis Chapter 9:

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Verses from Genesis, Chapter 9 of the Book of Genesis of the Bible.

Genesis - Old Testament — Genesis – Old Testament

God's Covenant with Noah

1. God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
2. Your fear and terror will be upon all the beasts of the earth and upon all the birds of the air; everything that moves on the earth and all the fish in the sea are delivered into your hands.
3. Everything that moves and lives will serve you as food; as I gave you the green herb, so now I give you everything.
4. But the flesh with its life, that is, with its blood, you shall not eat.
5. I will certainly require your blood, the blood of your lives; I will require it at the hand of every animal; and at the hand of man, and at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.
6. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; because God made man in his image.
7. But you, be fruitful and multiply; populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.
8. God spoke to Noah and his sons with him, saying:
9. I establish my covenant with you and with your descendants,
10. and with all the living creatures that are with you: both birds and domestic animals, and all the animals of the earth with you; everyone who came out of the ark, even every animal on the earth.
11. I will establish my covenant with you, and all living things will no longer be destroyed by the waters of the flood; nor will there be any more flood to destroy the earth.
12. And God said: This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and between every living creature that is with you, for all generations to come:
13. I have set my bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign that there is a covenant between me and the earth.
14. And it shall come to pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in them,
15. then I will remember my covenant, made between me and you and every living creature of every kind; and the waters will no longer become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16. The bow will be in the clouds, and when I see it, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.
17. God said to Noah: This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.

Noah's sons

18. The sons of Noah, who came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
19. These are the three sons of Noah, with whom the whole earth was populated.
20. Noah began to be a farmer and planted a vineyard.
21. He drank the wine, got drunk and fell asleep naked inside his tent.
22. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers, who were outside.
23. Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak, and put it on their own shoulders, and, going backwards, they covered their father's nakedness; their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father's nakedness.
24. When Noah woke up from his wine, he learned what his youngest son had done to him.
25. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; be a servant of your brothers' servants.
26. And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.
27. May God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.
28. After the flood, Noah lived three hundred and fifty years.
29. The whole time of Noah's life was nine hundred and fifty years; and died.