God’s Promise to Noah
1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: Gen. 1:28, 29; 8:17; 9:7, 19; 10:32"Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 Gen. 1:26, 28; Ps. 8:6And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand. 3 Deut. 12:15; 14:3, 9, 11; Acts 10:12, 13Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you Rom. 14:14, 20; 1 Cor. 10:23, 26; Col. 2:16; (1 Tim. 4:3, 4)all things, even as the Gen. 1:29green herbs. 4 Lev. 7:26; 17:10–16; 19:26; Deut. 12:16, 23; 15:23; 1 Sam. 14:33, 34; Acts 15:20, 29But you shall not eat flesh with its life, thatis, its blood. 5 Surely for your lifeblood I will demand areckoning;Ex. 21:28from the hand of every beast I will require it, and Gen. 4:9, 10; Ps. 9:12from the hand of man. From the hand of every Acts 17:26man’s brother I will require the life of man.
6 "Whoever Ex. 21:12–14; Lev. 24:17; Num. 35:33; Matt. 26:52sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed;
Gen. 1:26, 27For in the image of God
He made man.
7 And as for you, Gen. 9:1, 19be fruitful and multiply;
Bring forth abundantly in the earth
And multiply in it."
8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: 9 "And as for Me, Gen. 6:18behold, I establish Is. 54:9My covenant with you and with your descendants after you, 10 Ps. 145:9and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth. 11 Thus Gen. 8:21; Is. 54:9I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said: Gen. 9:13, 17; 17:11"This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I set Ezek. 1:28; Rev. 4:3My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and Lev. 26:42, 45; Deut. 7:9; Ezek. 16:60I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember Gen. 17:13, 19; 2 Sam. 23:5; Is. 55:3; Jer. 32:40; Heb. 13:20the everlasting 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."
Noah and His Sons
18 Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Gen. 9:25–27; 10:6And Ham was the father of Canaan. 19 Gen. 5:32These three were the sons of Noah, Gen. 9:1, 7; 10:32; 1 Chr. 1:4and from these the whole earth was populated.
20 And Noah began tobeGen. 3:19, 23; 4:2; Prov. 12:11; Jer. 31:24a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. 21 Then he drank of the wine Prov. 20:1; Eph. 5:18and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23 Ex. 20:12; Gal. 6:1But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
24 So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. 25 Then he said:
Deut. 27:16; Josh. 9:23, 27"Cursed be Canaan;
A Josh. 9:23; 1 Kin. 9:20, 21servant of servants
He shall be to his brethren."
26 And he said:
Gen. 14:20; 24:27; Ps. 144:15; Heb. 11:16"Blessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem,
And may Canaan be his servant.
27 May God Gen. 10:2–5; 39:3; Is. 66:19enlarge Japheth,
Luke 3:36; John 1:14; Eph. 2:13, 14; 3:6And may he dwell in the tents of Shem;
And may Canaan be his servant."
28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.