Book of Genesis, Chapter 9
Genesis 9 ASV - American Standard VersionChapter 9 of Genesis—American Standard Version (ASV)
- ¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
- And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens; with all wherewith the ground [a]teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered.
- Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.
- But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
- And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of man.
- Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
- ¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
- And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
- and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
- And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
- 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:
- [b]I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
- And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ¶ And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
- These three were the sons of Noah: and of these was the whole earth overspread.
- ¶ And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
- and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
- And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
- 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.
- And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his [c]youngest son had done unto him.
- And he said,
¶ Cursed be Canaan;
¶ A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. - ¶ And he said,
¶ Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem;
¶ And let Canaan be [d]his servant. - ¶ God enlarge Japheth,
¶ And [e]let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
¶ And let Canaan be his servant. - ¶ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
- And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Or, creepeth
- ^ Or, I have set
- ^ Or, younger
- ^ Or, their
- ^ Or, he shall
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