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Genesis 9
Covenant of the Rainbow
Genesis 9:1
And God
blessed
Noah
and his sons
,
and said
unto them, Be fruitful
,
and multiply
,
and replenish
the earth
.
Genesis 9:2
And the fear of you
and the dread of you
shall be upon every beast
of the earth
,
and upon every fowl
of the air
,
upon all that moveth
upon
the earth
,
and upon all the fishes
of the sea
;
into your hand
are they delivered
.
Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing
that liveth
shall be meat
for you; even as the green
herb
have I given
you all things.
Genesis 9:4
But
flesh
with the life
thereof,
which is
the blood
thereof, shall ye not eat
.
Genesis 9:5
And surely
your blood
of your lives
will I require
;
at the hand
of every beast
will I require it
,
and at the hand
of man
;
at the hand
of every man’s
brother
will I require
the life
of man
.
Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth
man’s
blood
,
by man
shall his blood
be shed
:
for in the image
of God
made
he man
.
Genesis 9:7
And you, be ye fruitful
,
and multiply
;
bring forth abundantly
in the earth
,
and multiply
therein.
Genesis 9:8
¶
And God
spake
unto Noah
,
and to his sons
with him, saying
,
Genesis 9:9
And I, behold, I establish
my covenant
with you, and with your seed
after you
;
Genesis 9:10
And with every living
creature
that
is
with you, of the fowl
,
of the cattle
,
and of every beast
of the earth
with you; from all that go out
of the ark
,
to every beast
of the earth
.
Genesis 9:11
And I will establish
my covenant
with you; neither shall all flesh
be cut off
any more by the waters
of a flood
;
neither shall there any more be a flood
to destroy
the earth
.
Genesis 9:12
And God
said
, This
is
the token
of the covenant
which I
make
between me and you and every living
creature
that
is
with you, for perpetual
generations
:
Genesis 9:13
I do set
my bow
in the cloud
,
and it shall be for a token
of a covenant
between me and the earth
.
Genesis 9:14
And it shall come to pass, when I bring
a cloud
over the earth
,
that the bow
shall be seen
in the cloud
:
Genesis 9:15
And I will remember
my covenant
, which
is
between me and you and every living
creature
of all flesh
;
and the waters
shall no more
become a flood
to destroy
all flesh
.
Genesis 9:16
And the bow
shall be in the cloud
;
and I will look upon it
,
that I may remember
the everlasting
covenant
between
God
and
every living
creature
of all flesh
that
is
upon the earth
.
Genesis 9:17
And God
said
unto Noah
, This
is
the token
of the covenant
,
which I have established
between me and all flesh
that
is
upon the earth
.
Genesis 9:18
¶
And the sons
of Noah
,
that went forth
of the ark
,
were Shem
,
and Ham
,
and Japheth
:
and Ham
is
the father
of Canaan
.
Genesis 9:19
These
are
the three
sons
of Noah
:
and of them was the whole earth
overspread
.
Genesis 9:20
And Noah
began
to be
an husbandman
,
and he planted
a vineyard
:
Genesis 9:21
And he drank
of the wine
,
and was drunken
;
and he was uncovered
within
his tent
.
Genesis 9:22
And Ham
,
the father
of Canaan
,
saw
the nakedness
of his father
,
and told
his two
brethren
without
.
Genesis 9:23
And Shem
and Japheth
took
a garment
,
and laid
it
upon both
their shoulders
,
and went
backward
,
and covered
the nakedness
of their father
;
and their faces
were
backward
,
and they saw
not their father’s
nakedness
.
Genesis 9:24
And Noah
awoke
from his wine
,
and knew
what his younger
son
had done
unto him.
Genesis 9:25
And he said
,
Cursed
be
Canaan
;
a servant
of servants
shall he be unto his brethren
.
Genesis 9:26
And he said
,
Blessed
be
the LORD
God
of Shem
;
and Canaan
shall be
his servant
.
Genesis 9:27
God
shall enlarge
Japheth
,
and he shall dwell
in the tents
of Shem
;
and Canaan
shall be his servant
.
Genesis 9:28
¶
And Noah
lived
after
the flood
three
hundred
and fifty
years
.
Genesis 9:29
And all the days
of Noah
were nine
hundred
and fifty
years
:
and he died
.