And
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto 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 upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea;
into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for
you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is
the blood thereof, 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 mans brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth mans 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 spake unto 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 unto 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 of the
ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of
Canaan.
19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of
them was the whole earth overspread.
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and
he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of 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
fathers nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his
younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant
of servants shall he be unto 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.