Genesis 9
World English Bible (WEB) • 29 verses
1God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
2The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
RelatedRomans 14:14 · 1 Timothy 4:3-5 · Deuteronomy 12:15 · Colossians 2:21-22 · 1 Corinthians 10:31 · 1 Corinthians 10:25-26
4But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
RelatedDeuteronomy 12:23 · Deuteronomy 15:23 · Deuteronomy 12:16 · Acts 15:20 · Leviticus 7:26 · Leviticus 17:10-14
5I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
RelatedExodus 21:28-29 · Exodus 21:12 · Genesis 4:9-10 · Numbers 35:31-33 · Psalms 9:12 · Deuteronomy 21:1-9
6Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
RelatedLeviticus 24:17 · Matthew 26:52 · Revelation 13:10 · Exodus 21:12-14 · Numbers 35:33 · Genesis 1:26-27
7Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly on the earth, and multiply in it.”
8God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
9“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring 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 go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
11I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12God 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:
RelatedGenesis 17:11 · Matthew 26:26-28 · Exodus 12:13 · Genesis 9:17 · Exodus 13:16 · 1 Corinthians 11:23-25
13I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
14When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
15I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
RelatedDeuteronomy 7:9 · Isaiah 54:8-10 · Ezekiel 16:60 · Exodus 28:12 · 1 Kings 8:23 · Psalms 106:45
16The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
RelatedJeremiah 32:40 · Isaiah 54:8-10 · Genesis 17:19 · Genesis 17:13 · 2 Samuel 23:5 · Hebrews 13:20
17God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
18The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
20Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
RelatedDeuteronomy 20:6 · Genesis 3:18-19 · Ecclesiastes 5:9 · Proverbs 10:11 · Genesis 5:29 · Genesis 3:23
21He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
RelatedHabakkuk 2:15-16 · Proverbs 20:1 · Proverbs 23:31-32 · Titus 2:2 · Galatians 5:21 · Genesis 6:9
22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
RelatedProverbs 30:17 · Galatians 6:1 · Psalms 40:15 · 1 Corinthians 13:6 · Matthew 18:15 · Psalms 70:3
23Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.
24Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
25He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
26He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.
RelatedPsalms 144:15 · Hebrews 11:16 · Genesis 12:1-3 · Deuteronomy 33:26 · Genesis 10:10-26 · Genesis 27:37
27May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”
RelatedRomans 11:12 · Romans 15:12 · Hebrews 11:9-10 · Ephesians 3:6 · Ephesians 2:13-14 · Ephesians 3:13
28Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
29All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
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