Thematic Bible

Genesis 9:1

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:2

The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.

Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.

Genesis 9:4

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Genesis 9:5

Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.

Genesis 9:7

“As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

Genesis 9:8

Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

Genesis 9:9

“Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;

Genesis 9:10

and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

Genesis 9:11

I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 9:12

God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;

Genesis 9:13

I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.

Genesis 9:14

It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will 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 never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Genesis 9:16

When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

Genesis 9:17

And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Genesis 9:18

Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

Genesis 9:19

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

Genesis 9:20

Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.

Genesis 9:21

He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Genesis 9:22

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 9:23

But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

Genesis 9:24

When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Genesis 9:25

So he said,
Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers.”

Genesis 9:26

He also said,
Blessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.

Genesis 9:27

May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”

Genesis 9:28

Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

Genesis 9:29

So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.