9:1 Then Yahweh praised Noah
and
his descendants.
He
spoke to them:
Be
fruitful and multiply
and
fill the land.
9:2 The respect and fear of you
will
be on every animal of the land
and
every bird in the sky
and
every creature crawling on the ground
and
the fish in the sea
will
be your responsibility.
9:3 Every creeping thing alive
can
be your food.
Just
as you were given green plants
you
are entrusted with all.
9:4 But you must not eat flesh
that has life or contains blood.
9:5 For your lifeblood
will
require an accounting.
There
will be an accounting
for
every animal.
Also
for each human being
there
will be an accounting
for
the life of another human being.
9:6 Those who shed human blood
will
by humans have their blood shed
because
in the image of the Almighty
has
the Almighty made humans.
9:7 So you can be fruitful and multiply
bring
forth abundantly on the land
and
multiply upon it.
9:8 Then the Almighty spoke
to
Noah and his sons:
9:9 My promise to you
and
those who come after you
9:10 and to those creatures
that
are living with you
the
birds and the beasts of the field
and
the wild animals
all
living creatures in the land
and
all those who disembarked
the
boat with you:
9:11 I make a promise to you:
Life
will never be destroyed
by
waters of a flood.
Never
will a flood ever
destroy
the world.
9:12 Then the Almighty spoke,
the
proof of the promise
I
am making to you
and
every living creature with you,
a
covenant for all generations
into
the future:
9:13 I made a rainbow
in
the clouds
as
a sign of the promise
I
made to the world.
9:14 Whenever the clouds
cover
the land
and
the rainbow appears
in
the clouds
9:15 it will remind you
of
My promise
made
to you
and
all living creatures
of
every species
that
flood waters
will
never destroy life.
9:16 When the rainbow
appears
in the clouds
it
will help you remember
my
eternal promise
made
to all living creatures
of
all types within the world.
9:17 ThenYahweh said to Noah:
This
is the mark
of
the promise I have made
to
you and all the life in the world.
9:18 The descendants of Noah
who
departed from the boat
were
Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Ham
became the leader of
9:19 These three sons of Noah
brought
forth people
now
spread throughout
the
whole region.
9:20 Noah began to tend the land
then
planted a vineyard.
9:21 Once he drank some of its wine
became
drunk and laid
inside
his tent uncovered.
9:22 Ham, the leader of
saw
his teacher’s indecency
and
told his two brothers outside.
9:23 Shem and Japheth put a cloak
over
their shoulders
walked
in backward
and
covered their teacher’s body.
They
turned their faces
so
they wouldn’t see
their
father naked.
9:24 Then Noah awoke from his wine
and
discovered what
his
youngest son had done.
9:25 Noah cursed
A
servant to servants
will
he be to his brothers.
9:26 Then Noah said:
Praise
be the Almighty
the
God of Shem!
and
may
9:27 May God extend Japheth's property
may
Japheth live in the tents of Shem
and
may
9:28 Noah lived 350 years after the flood.
9:29 Noah’s years totaled 950
and
then he passed away.
