1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and He said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. VP
2 And the fear of you⁺ and the dread of you⁺ shall be on every beast of the earth, and on every bird of the heavens, in all that crawls [on] the earth, and in all the fish of the sea. Into your⁺ hand they are given. VP
3 Every crawling thing that [has in] it life, for you⁺ it shall be for food; as the green plant, I have given to you⁺ all. VP
4 Only flesh with its soul—its blood—you⁺ shall not eat. VP
5 And surely your⁺ blood for your⁺ souls I will require; from the hand of every living thing I will require it, and from the hand of the man; from the hand of each man’s brother I will require the soul of the man. VP
6 The one shedding the blood of the man, by the man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made the man. VP
7 And you⁺, be fruitful and multiply; swarm in the earth and multiply in it.” VP
8 And God said to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, VP
9 “And I—behold, I, am establishing My covenant with you⁺ and with your⁺ seed after you⁺, VP
10 and with every living soul that [is] with you⁺, among the bird, among the livestock, and among every living thing of the earth with you⁺, from all those going out of the ark, to every living thing of the earth. VP
11 And I will establish My covenant with you⁺, that all flesh shall not again be cut off by the waters of the flood; and there shall not again be a flood to destroy the earth.” VP
12 And God said, “This [is] the sign of the covenant that I am giving between Me, and between you⁺, and between every living soul that [is] with you⁺, for generations everlasting. VP
13 My bow I have set in the cloud, and it shall be for [a] sign of the covenant between Me and between the earth. VP
14 And it shall come to pass in My bringing a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. VP
15 And I will remember My covenant, that [is] between Me, and between you⁺, and between every living soul among all flesh; and the waters shall not again become a flood to destroy all flesh. VP
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will see it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and between every living soul among all flesh that [is] on the earth.” VP
17 And God said to Noah, “This [is] the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and between all flesh that [is] on the earth.” VP
18 And the sons of Noah who went out from the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. And Ham—he [was] the father of Canaan. VP
19 These [were] the three sons of Noah, and from these all the earth was dispersed. VP
20 And Noah began [to be] a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard. VP
21 And he drank from the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself in the midst of his tent. VP
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside. VP
23 And Shem took—and Japheth—the garment, and they laid [it] on the shoulders of the two of them and they went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces [were] backward, and the nakedness of their father they did not see. VP
24 And Noah awoke from his wine and he knew what his son, the youngest, had done to him. VP
25 And he said, “Cursed [is] Canaan! A servant of servants he shall be to his brothers.” VP
26 And he said, “Blessed [is] YHWH, the God of Shem! And may Canaan be a servant to them. VP
27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be a servant to them.” VP
28 And after the flood Noah lived three hundred years and fifty years. VP
29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred years and fifty years, and he died. VP