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New Testament
Genesis 9
God's Covenant With the Earth
91God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2Every animal on the earth and every bird in the sky will fear you and dread you. Everything that swarms on the ground and all the fish in the sea are handed over to you. 3Every living, moving thing will be food for you. I have given everything to you, just as I gave you the green plants. 4But flesh that has the blood (which is its life) still in it, you shall not eat. 5In fact, I will hold each animal and each person responsible for your lifeblood. I will hold each man responsible for the life of his brother. 6Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for God made man in his own image.
7“But you, be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly on the earth, and multiply on it.”
8God said to Noah and to his sons, who were with him, 9“Listen, I will now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10and with everything with you that has the breath of life: with the birds, with the livestock, and with every wild animal that is on the earth with you, with everything that went out of the ark, even with every wild animal on the earth. 11I will establish my covenant with you: Never again will all living creatures[] be cut off by the waters of a flood. Neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12God also said, “This is the sign of the covenant between me and you and every living creature with you that I am giving for all generations to come. 13I have set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be the sign of a covenant between me and the earth. 14Whenever I bring a cloud over the earth and the rainbow is seen in the cloud, 15I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of every sort,[] and the waters will never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it so that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.” 17God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
The Repopulation of the Earth
18The sons of Noah who went out from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, people spread out over the whole earth.
20Noah began to be a man of the soil and planted a vineyard. 21He drank some of the wine and got drunk. He lay uncovered inside his tent. 22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it over their shoulders. They went in backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. They faced backwards, and they did not see their father's nakedness. 24Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him. 25He said:
A curse on Canaan!
He will be the lowest of servants to his brothers.
26Then he said:
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem!
Let Canaan be his servant.
27May God enlarge Japheth.
Let him dwell in the tents of Shem.
Let Canaan be his servant.
28Noah lived 350 years after the flood. 29All the days of Noah were 950 years. Then he died.