Genesis 9 · Parashat Noach

And God blessed Noaĥ and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon all that moves upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

But flesh with its life, which is its blood, you shall not eat.

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.

Whoso sheds man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made He man.

And as for you, be fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.

And God spoke to Noaĥ, and to his sons with him, saying,

And behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

and with every living creature that is with you, of the birds, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that came out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

And I will establish My covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

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:

I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

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.

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.

And God said to Noaĥ, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

And the sons of Noaĥ, that went out of the ark, were Shem, and Ḥam, and Yefet: and Ḥam is the father of Kena῾an.

These are the three sons of Noaĥ: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

And Noaĥ began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

And he drank of the wine, and was drunk; and he was uncovered within his tent.

And Ḥam, the father of Kena῾an saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren outside.

And Shem and Yefet took the 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.

And Noaĥ awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.

And he said, Cursed be Kena῾an; a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren.

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Kena῾an shall be his servant.

God shall enlarge Yefet, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Kena῾an shall be his servant.

And Noaĥ lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

And all the days of Noaĥ were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.