1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every living thing of the earth, upon every flying creature of the heavens, upon everything that moves on the earth, and upon all the fish of the sea. They have been entrusted into your hand.3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have designated all things for you, even as the green plants.4 But you shall not eat flesh with its soul, that is, its blood.5 Surely the blood of your souls will I require; at the hand of every living thing will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man’s brother I will require the soul of man.6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.7 And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; swarm in the earth and multiply in it.8 And God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:9 And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you,10 and with every living creature that is with you: the flying creatures, the animals, and every living thing of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every living thing of the earth.11 Thus I have established My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.12 And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:13 I set My 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 I 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 upon it to remember the perpetual covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon 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 upon the earth.18 Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these they scattered throughout the whole earth.20 And Noah began to be a man of the land, and he planted a vineyard.21 Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.23 But 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 backward, and they did not see the nakedness of their father.24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and perceived what his younger son had done to him.25 And he said: Cursed is Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren.26 And he said: Blessed is Jehovah the 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 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

1 And God blisside Noe and hise sones, and seide to hem, Encreesse ye, and be ye multiplied, and fille ye the erthe;2 and youre drede and tremblyng be on alle vnresonable beestis of erthe, and on alle briddis of heuene, with alle thingis that ben moued in erthe; alle fischis of the see ben youun to youre hond.3 And al thing which is moued and lyueth schal be to you in to mete; Y have youe to you alle thingis as greene wortis,4 outakun that ye schulen not ete fleisch with blood,5 for Y schal seke the blood of youre lyues of the hoond of alle vnresonable beestis and of the hoond of man, of the hoond of man and of hys brother Y schal seke the lijf of man.6 Who euere schedith out mannus blood, his blood schal be sched; for man is maad to the ymage of God.7 Forsothe encreesse ye, and be ye multiplied, and entre ye on erthe, and fille ye it, Also the Lord seide thes thingis to Noe,8 and to his sones with him, Lo!9 Y schal make my couenaunt with you, and with your seed after you,10 and to ech lyuynge soule which is with you, as wel in briddis as in werk beestis and smale beestis of erthe, and to alle thingis that yeden out of the schip, and to alle vnresonable beestis of erthe.11 Y schal make my couenaunt with you, and ech fleisch schal no more be slayn of the watris of the greet flood, nethir the greet flood distriynge al erthe schal be more.12 And God seide, This is the signe of boond of pees, which Y yyue bitwixe me and you, and to ech lyuynge soule which is with you, in to euerlastynge generaciouns.13 Y schal sette my bowe in the cloudis, and it schal be a signe of boond of pees bitwixe me and erthe;14 and whanne Y schal hile heuene with cloudis, my bowe schal appere in the cloudis,15 and Y schal haue mynde of my boond of pees which Y made with you, and with ech soule lyuynge, that nurschith fleisch; and the watris of the greet flood schulen no more be to do awey al fleish.16 And my bowe schal be in the cloudis, and Y schal se it, and Y schal haue mynde of euerlastynge boond of pees, which is maad bitwixe God and man, and ech soul lyuynge of al fleisch which is on erthe.17 And God seide to Noe, This schal be a signe of boond of pees, which Y made bitwixe me and ech fleisch on erthe.18 Therfore thei that yeden out of the schip weren Noe, Sem, Cham, and Japheth; forsothe Cham, thilke is the fadir of Chanaan.19 These thre weren the sones of Noe, and al the kynde of men was sowun of hem on al erthe.20 And Noe, an erthe tiliere, bigan to tile the erthe, and he plauntide a viner,21 and he drank wyn, and was drunkun; and he was nakid, and lay in his tabernacle.22 And whanne Cham, the fadir of Chanaan, hadde seien this thing, that is, that the schameful membris of his fadir weren maad nakid, he telde to hise tweye britheren with out forth.23 And sotheli Sem and Jafeth puttiden a mentil on her schuldris, and thei yeden bacward, and hileden the schameful membris of her fadir, and her faces weren turned awei, and thei sien not the priuy membris of her fadir.24 And forsothe Noe wakide of the wyn, and whanne he hadde lerned what thingis his lesse sone hadde do to hym,25 he seide, Cursid be the child Canaan, he schal be seruaunt of seruauntis to hise britheren.26 And Noe seide, Blessid be the Lord God of Sem,27 and Chanaan be the seruaunt to Sem; God alarge Jafeth, and dwelle in the tabernaclis of Sem, and Chanaan be seruaunt of hym.28 Forsothe Noe lyuede aftir the greet flood thre hundrid and fifti yeer;29 and alle the daies of hym weren fillid nyn hundrid and fifty yeer, and he was deed.