Genesis Chapter 9

Genesis Chapter 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons,
and said to them, Bring forth fruit, and
multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 Also the fear of you, and the dread of
you shall be upon every beast of the
earth, and upon every foul of the heaven,
upon all that moveth on the earth, and
upon all the fishes of the sea: into your
hand are they delivered. 3 Everything
that moveth and liveth, shall be meat for
you: as the green herb, have I given you
all things.
4 But flesh with the life thereof, I mean,
with the blood thereof, shall ye not eat?
5 For surely I will require your blood,
wherein your lives are: at the hand of
every beast will I require it: and at the
hand of man, even at the hand of a man’s
brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheadeth man’s blood, by man
shall his blood be shed: for in the image
of God hath he made man.
7 But bring ye forth fruit and multiply:
grow plentifully in the earth, and
increase therein.
8 God spake also to Noah and to his
sons with him, saying,
9 Behold, I, even I establish my
covenant with you, and with your seed
after you,
10 And with every living creature that is
with you, with the foul, with the cattle,
and with every beast of the earth with
you, from all that go out of the ark, unto
every beast of the earth.
11 And my covenant will I establish
with you, that from henceforth all flesh
shall not be rooted out by the waters of
the flood, neither shall there be a flood
to destroy the earth any more.
12 Then God said, This is the token of
the covenant which I make between me
and you, and between every living thing,
that is with you unto perpetual
generations.
13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it
shall be for a sign of the covenant
between me and the earth.
14 And when I shall cover the earth with
a cloud, and the bow shall be seen in the
cloud,
15 Then will I remember my covenant,
which is between me and you, and
between every living thing in all flesh,
and there shall be no more waters of a
flood to destroy all flesh.
16 Therefore the bow shall be in the
cloud, that I may see it, and remember
the everlasting covenant between God,
and every living thing in all flesh that is
upon the earth.
17 God said yet 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 going 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 Noah also began to be an
husbandman and planted a vineyard. 21
And he drunk of the wine and was
drunken, and was uncovered in the midst
of his tent.
22 And when Ham the father of Canaan
saw the nakedness of his father, he told
his two brethren without.
23 Then took Shem and Japheth a
garment, and put it upon both their
shoulders and went backward, and
covered the nakedness of their father
with their faces backward: so they saw
not their father’s nakedness. 24 Then
Noah awoke from his wine, and knew
what his younger son had done unto him,
25 And said, Cursed be Canaan: a
servant of servants shall he be unto his
brethren.
26 He said moreover, Blessed be the
Lord God of Shem, and let Canaan be
his servant.
27 God persuaded Japheth, that he may
dwell in the tents of Shem, and let
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.