Genesis 9

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Covenant of the Rainbow

9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “^(A)Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ²The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you. ³Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, ^(B)as I gave the green plant. ⁴But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, ^(C)its blood. ⁵I certainly will require ^[a]^(D)your lifeblood; ^[b]^(E)from every animal I will require it. And ^[c]from every person, ^[d]from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.

⁶^(F)Whoever sheds human blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For ^(G)in the image of God
He made mankind.
⁷As for you, ^(H)be fruitful and multiply;
^[e]Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

⁸Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹“Now behold, ^(I)I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your ^[f]descendants after you; ¹⁰and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth. ¹¹I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall ^(J)never again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, ^(K)nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.” ¹²God said, “This is ^(L)the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for ^[g]all future generations; ¹³I have set My ^(M)rainbow in the cloud, and it shall ^[h]serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. ¹⁴It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, ¹⁵and ^(N)I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and ^(O)never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶When the rainbow is in the cloud, then I will look at it, to remember the ^(P)everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” ¹⁷And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

¹⁸Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and ^(Q)Ham was the father of Canaan. ¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and ^(R)from these the whole earth was ^[i]populated.

²⁰Then Noah began ^[j]farming and planted a vineyard. ²¹He drank some of the wine and ^(S)became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. ²²Ham, the father of Canaan, ^(T)saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. ²³But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it on both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were ^[k]turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness. ²⁴When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him. ²⁵So he said,

“^(U)Cursed be Canaan;
^[l]^(V)A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers.”

²⁶He also said,

“^(W)Blessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem;
And may Canaan be ^[m]his servant.
²⁷^(X)May God enlarge Japheth,
And may he live in the tents of Shem;
And may Canaan be ^[n]his servant.”

²⁸Noah lived 350 years after the flood. ²⁹So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

Footnotes

Genesis 9:5 Lit your blood of your lives
Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of
Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of
Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of
Genesis 9:7 Lit Swarm in the earth
Genesis 9:9 Lit seed
Genesis 9:12 Or everlasting generations
Genesis 9:13 Lit be for
Genesis 9:19 Lit scattered
Genesis 9:20 Lit to be a farmer
Genesis 9:23 Lit backward
Genesis 9:25 I.e., The lowest of servants
Genesis 9:26 Or their
Genesis 9:27 Or their

Genesis 10

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Descendants of Noah

10 Now these are the records of the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

²^(A)The sons of Japheth were ^(B)Gomer, Magog, ^(C)Madai, ^(D)Javan, Tubal, ^(E)Meshech, and Tiras. ³The sons of Gomer were ^(F)Ashkenaz, ^[a]Riphath, and ^(G)Togarmah. ⁴The sons of Javan were Elishah, ^(H)Tarshish, Kittim, and ^[b]Dodanim. ⁵From these the people of the coastlands of the nations ^[c]were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

⁶^(I)The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. ⁷The sons of Cush were ^(J)Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, ^(K)Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were ^(L)Sheba and ^(M)Dedan. ⁸Now Cush fathered Nimrod; he ^[d]became a mighty one on the earth. ⁹He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” ¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdom was ^[e]^(N)Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of ^(O)Shinar. ¹¹From that land he went ^(P)to Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, ¹²and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. ¹³Mizraim fathered ^(Q)Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, ¹⁴^(R)Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

¹⁵Canaan fathered ^(S)Sidon, his firstborn, and ^(T)Heth, ¹⁶^(U)the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, ¹⁷the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, ¹⁸the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad. ¹⁹^(V)The territory of the Canaanite ^[f]extended from Sidon ^[g]going toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; and ^[h]going toward ^(W)Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. ²⁰These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.

²¹Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born. ²²^(X)The sons of Shem were ^(Y)Elam, Asshur, ^(Z)Arpachshad, ^(AA)Lud, and Aram. ²³The sons of Aram were ^(AB)Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. ²⁴Arpachshad fathered ^(AC)Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber. ²⁵^(AD)Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was ^[i]Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. ²⁶Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁸^[j]Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all of these were the sons of Joktan. ³⁰Now their ^[k]settlement ^[l]extended from Mesha ^[m]going toward Sephar, the hill country of the east. ³¹These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

³²These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their descendants, by their nations; and ^(AE)out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.