Genesis 9Book 1 of 66 · 29 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. So God blessed Noah and his sons, and told them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth."
  2. The fear and dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea, for they are given into your hand.
  3. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you, and as I gave you the green plants, I have given you everything.
  4. But you shall not eat meat with its life, that is, its blood.
  5. Surely for your lifeblood I will demand an accounting; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man.
  6. Whoever sheds human 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; increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.
  8. Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:
  9. And as for Me, behold, I Myself establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
  10. and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, all the animals that came out of the ark, every beast of the earth.
  11. Thus I 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: "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
  13. I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
  14. It shall be, when I send clouds over the earth, that the rainbow will appear in the clouds.
  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 life.
  16. When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will look upon it to remember the 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."
  18. Now the sons of Noah who came 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 the people of the whole earth were populated.
  20. And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
  21. Then he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and lay uncovered inside his tent.
  22. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his two brothers.
  23. But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father, and their faces were turned away so they did not see their father's nakedness.
  24. So Noah awoke from his wine and learned what his youngest son had done to him.
  25. Then he said, "Cursed be Canaan; the lowest of servants he shall be to his brothers."
  26. And he said, Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.
  27. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.
  28. And Noah lived another three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
  29. So all the days of Noah's life were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.