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Chapter 9
1 Thereafter, God blest Noah and his sons and told them, 'Reproduce and multiply… fill the earth and rule over it. 2 All the wild animals of the earth, the winged creatures in the skies, and everything that moves on the ground including the creatures in the seas will have a dread and fear of you. For I have put you in charge over all of them.
3 'Also, all living and slithering animals can serve as meat for you… I have given them all to you as though they were green vegetation. 4 But you must not eat flesh with its blood of life. 5 Otherwise, I will require your blood at the hand of all the wild animals. I will also require a man's life at the hands of his brothers. 6 For whoever spills the blood of men will also have his blood spilled, because I made man in the image of God. 7 Now, reproduce and multiply… fill the earth and rule over it!'
8 Then God spoke to Noah and his sons who were with him and said: 9 'Look; I am making a promise between you and Me, [as well as] with your seed [that will come] after you 10 and with everything that lives (the winged creatures, the [domesticated] animals, and all the wild animals of the earth)… with all that are with you and came out of the chest. 11 This is the promise that I'm giving to you and to all flesh: Never again will a downpour of water kill all flesh, and never again will a downpour destroy the whole land.'
12 Then Jehovah God told Noah: 'This is the sign that I have set [as a reminder] of the promise through ages of generations between you, Me, and every living creature that is with you: 13 I have put My bow in the clouds, which will serve as the sign of the Agreement between the earth and Me. 14 So whenever I gather clouds over the earth, My bow will be seen in those clouds, 15 and this will remind Me of My promise between you and Me, and with every living creature and all flesh, that never again will there be a downpour of water that will blot out all flesh. 16 My bow will be in the clouds, and when I see it I will remember the age-long promise between the earth and Me, and with every living creature among all the flesh that is on the earth.'
17 Then God told Noah: 'This is the sign of the promise that I made with all flesh that is on the earth and Myself.'
18 Now, the sons of Noah (who came out of the chest) were [named] Shem, Ham, and JaPheth (Ham was the father of CanaAn). 19 And it was from these three sons of Noah that men came to be scattered over the whole earth.
20 Thereafter, Noah took up farming and he planted some grapes. 21 [Then, one day], Noah was drinking some wine while he was naked in his house, and he got drunk. 22 Meanwhile, Ham (CanaAn's father) saw his father's nakedness, and he went outside and told his brothers about it. 23 Then Shem and JaPheth grabbed a robe, put it over their backs, and walked backward to cover their father's naked body. And because they were looking away, they didn't see their father's nakedness.
24 Well, after Noah recovered from the wine, he realized what his son had done to him. 25 So he said: 'The servant CanaAn is cursed, and he will be a slave to his brothers.' 26 Then he added: 'May Jehovah (the God of Shem) bless him… but let CanaAn be his houseboy. 27 Yes, may God make room for JaPheth and allow him to live in the tents of Shem… and may CanaAn become his.'
28 Well after the Downpour, Noah lived on for another three hundred and fifty years. 29 So he lived for nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.
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