Genesis Chapter 9

            ¹ God blessed Noah and his sons,

“Reproduce and repopulate the world. ² Animals and birds will be afraid of you. I’ve made you responsible for what moves on the ground and for the fish in the ocean. ³ You can eat anything that lives and moves as well as the green plants, ⁴ but don’t eat the blood with the meat. ⁵ I’ll demand your life from every animal and everyone ⁶ that sheds someone’s blood. They will have their blood shed because I made people in my image. ⁷ Reproduce and repopulate the world abundantly.”      

Gen 8:20-9:7

            ⁸ God told Noah and his sons,

⁹ “I’m establishing a covenant with you, your descendants, ¹⁰ and the living things that left the ark: ¹¹ I’ll never again get rid of people and animals and destroy the world with a flood. ^12-13 My rainbow in the clouds represents that covenant for all generations: ¹⁴ when I bring clouds over the earth, the rainbow ¹⁵ will remind me of my covenant.” [ ^16-17 ]

¹⁸ Noah’s sons that came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; Ham was Canaan’s father. ¹⁹ Noah’s sons began to repopulate the world.

Gen 9:8-19

            ²⁰ Noah began to cultivate the ground and planted a vineyard. ²¹ He drank the wine and got drunk and uncovered himself in his tent. ²² Ham saw him naked and told his brothers outside. ²³ Shem and Japheth held a cloak over their shoulders, walked backwards, and looked away so they wouldn’t see him naked.

²⁴ When Noah woke up from his wine, he found out what his youngest son had done. ²⁵ He said,

“Accursed be Canaan. He’ll be the lowest of servants to his brothers. ²⁶ Bless the LORD, Shem’s God. Canaan will serve Shem. ²⁷ May God give Japheth an extensive inheritance. He’ll live in Shem’s tents, and Canaan will serve him.”

²⁸ Noah lived 350 years after the flood. ²⁹ Altogether he lived 950 years and died.          

Gen 9:20-29