1 Deus abençoou Noé e os seus filhos. E disse-lhes que se multiplicassem e repovoassem a terra.2 Todos as criaturas da terra, assim como os pássaros e os peixes, terão medo de vocês, disse-lhes Deus. Porque coloquei-os sob o vosso domínio. Servirão para vosso alimento e subsistência, para além da comida de origem vegetal. Mas nunca comam a carne com a sua vida, isto é, com o sangue. Nunca assassinem um ser humano. Pedir-vos-ei contas do sangue humano que tenham feito derramar. E até aos animais que matarem criaturas humanas pedirei contas do sangue que derramaram, porque era a vida delas. Quem assassinar um ser humano terá de morrer, pois que ele foi feito à imagem de Deus. Multipliquem-se pois, repovoem a terra e subjuguem-na.8 Deus disse mais a Noé e aos seus filhos:9 Faço a minha aliança contigo, com todos os teus descendentes, e não só em relação a esses mas a todo o ser vivo que trouxeste contigo durante o dilúvio: Nunca mais mandarei à terra uma cheia semelhante que destrua tudo o que existe. E este será o sinal da aliança eterna que faço convosco: aparecerá um arco-íris na atmosfera. Quando o céu se acumular de nuvens e houver chuva há-de aparecer esse arco, como lembrança da minha aliança contigo e com todo o ser vivo de que nunca mais destruirei a vida que existe, por meio de um dilúvio semelhante. O arco-íris lembrará, a todos os seres que existem na terra, a aliança que faço convosco.18 Os nomes dos três filhos de Noé eram pois Sem, Cam e Jafete. (Cam é aquele de quem descendem todos os cananeus.) Destes três vieram todos os povos da terra.20 Noé tornou-se agricultor, plantou vinhas e foi vinicultor. Um dia embriagou-se e despiu-se completamente dentro da sua tenda. Cam, o pai de Canaã, viu o pai despido, saiu e foi chamar os outros dois irmãos. Então Sem e Jafete pegaram numa capa, chegaram-se de costas com a capa suspensa nos ombros, aproximaram-se do pai no meio da tenda, e assim o cobriram, sem terem visto o seu pai nu.24 Quando Noé se refez dessa embriaguês e soube o que tinha acontecido e a forma como o seu filho mais novo, Cam, tinha agido, amaldiçoou os descendentes de Cam: Maldito sejam os cananeus. Que se tornem escravos dos descendentes de Sem e de Jafete. E acrescentou: Que Deus abençoe Sem. Que os cananeus o sirvam. Que Deus abençoe Jafete e que partilhe da prosperidade de Sem, e que os cananeus o sirvam igualmente.28 Noé viveu ainda 350 anos depois do dilúvio. Tinha 950 anos quando morreu.

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth on the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things:4 But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood, shall ye not eat.5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.6 Whoever sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.8 And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh 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 token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations.13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.17 And God said to Noah, This is the token 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, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham was the father of Canaan.19 These three were the sons of Noah: and from them was the whole earth overspread.20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:21 And he drank the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent.22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.23 And 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 saw not their father's nakedness.24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren.26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.