Genesis 9

¹And God blessed Noe and his sons, And he said to them: Increase & multiply, and replenish the earth.

²And your terror and dread be it upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, with all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered to your hand.

³And all that moveth and liveth shall be yours for meat: even as the green herbs have I delivered all to you.

⁴Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

⁵For I will require the blood of your souls at the hands of all beasts: and at the hand of man, at the hand of each man, and of his brother, will I require the soul of man.

⁶Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for to the image of God man was made.

⁷But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth, and fill it.

⁸Thus also said God to Noe, and his sons with him:

⁹Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:

¹⁰and with every living soul that is with you, as well in all fowls as in cattle & beasts of the earth that are come forth out of the ark, and in all beasts of the earth.

¹¹I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from hence-forth a flood to waste the earth.

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

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

¹⁴And when I shall cover the element with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds:

¹⁵and I shall remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood, to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶And my bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and I shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.

¹⁷And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I established between me & all flesh of the earth.

¹⁸The sons therefore of Noe, that came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham he is the father of Chanaan.

¹⁹These three are the sons of Noe: and of these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.

²⁰And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.

²¹And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and naked in his tabernacle.

²²Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit that his father's privities were bare, he told it to his two brethren abroad.

²³But indeed Sem and Japhet put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the privities of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father's privities.

²⁴And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,

²⁵he said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

²⁶And he saith: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, Chanaan be his servant.

²⁷God enlarge Japheth, and dwell he in the tabernacles of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.

²⁸And Noe lived after the flood three hundred fifty years.

²⁹And all his days were in the whole nine hundred fifty years: and he died.