Genesis 9 · Clearspring

The Covenant of the Rainbow

¹And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.+ ²And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.+ ³Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.+ ⁴But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.+ ⁵And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.+ ⁶Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.+ ⁷And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.+ ⁸And God said to Noah and to his sons,+ ⁹Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,+ ¹⁰And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.+ ¹¹And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.+ ¹²And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:+ ¹³I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.+ ¹⁴And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,+ ¹⁵And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.+ ¹⁶And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.+ ¹⁷And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth.+

Noah’s Shame and Canaan’s Curse

¹⁸And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.+ ¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.+ ²⁰In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.+ ²¹And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent.+ ²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.+ ²³And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.+ ²⁴And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,+ ²⁵Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.+

Shem’s Blessing and Noah’s Death

²⁶And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.+ ²⁷May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.+ ²⁸And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters; ²⁹all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.+

The Covenant of the Rainbow

Noah’s Shame and Canaan’s Curse

Shem’s Blessing and Noah’s Death

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