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.
