9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “^(A)Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ² And the fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the ^[a]sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. ³ Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; ^(B)as with the green plant, I give all to you. ⁴ However, flesh with its life, that is, ^(C)its blood, you shall not eat. ⁵ Surely I will require ^[b](D)your lifeblood; ^[c](E)from every living thing I will require it. And ^[d]from every man, ^[e]from each man’s brother I will require the life of man.

⁸ Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹ “As for Me, behold, ^(I)I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you; ¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. ¹¹ Indeed I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall ^(J)never again be cut off by the water of the flood, ^(K)and there shall never again be a flood to destroy the earth.” ¹² Then God said, “This is ^(L)the sign of the covenant which I am giving to be between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for ^[g]all successive generations; ¹³ I put My ^(M)bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. ¹⁴ And it will be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, ¹⁵ and ^(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. ¹⁶ So the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the ^(P)everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” ¹⁷ And 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.”

Noah’s Three Sons

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

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

²⁶ And he said,

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