1 God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, "Be fruitful and increase, and fill the earth.
2 Fear and dread of you will be upon every animal of the earth and every bird of the heavens, upon all that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are given.
3 Every moving thing that is alive will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
4 Only flesh with its life, its blood, you must not eat.
5 And your blood, the blood of your lives, I will surely demand; from every animal I will demand it, and from man. From each man's brother I will demand the life of man.
6 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for God made man in his own image.
7 As for you, be fruitful and increase; teem upon the earth and increase on it."
8 God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
9 "As for me, I am now establishing my covenant with you and with your seed after you,
10 and with every living creature with you—birds, cattle, and every wild animal of the earth with you—all that came out of the ark, every animal of the earth.
11 I will establish my covenant with you: never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again will there be a flood to ruin the earth."
12 God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, for generations without end:
13 My bow I have set in the cloud, and it will be the sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the cloud,
15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters will never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 The bow will be in the cloud, and I will look at it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature among all flesh on the earth."
17 And God told Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all flesh on the earth."
18 Noah's sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
19 These three were Noah's sons, and from them the whole earth was spread abroad.
20 Noah, a man of the ground, began by planting a vineyard.
21 He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
22 Ham, Canaan's father, saw his father's nakedness and reported it to his two brothers outside.
23 But Shem and Japheth took the cloak, put it over the shoulders of both, and walking backward they covered their father's nakedness; their faces were turned away, so they did not see their father's nakedness.
24 When Noah woke from his wine and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
25 he said, "Cursed is Canaan; a servant of servants he will be to his brothers."
26 And he said, "Blessed is the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be a servant to him.
27 May God make room for Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be a servant to him."
28 Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
29 All of Noah's days amounted to nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.