BERESHITH (GENESIS) 9

Gen 9:1 And Elohim blessed Noaḥ and his sons, and said to them, “Bear
fruit and increase, and fill the earth.
Gen 9:2 “And the fear of you and the dread of you is on every beast of the
earth, on every bird of the heavens, on all that creeps on the ground, and on
all the fish of the sea – into your hand they have been given.
Gen 9:3 “Every moving creature that lives is food for you. I have given you
all, as I gave the green plants.
Gen 9:4 “But do not eat flesh with its life, its blood.
Gen 9:5 “But only your blood for your lives I require, from the hand of
every beast I require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every
man’s brother I require the life of man.
Gen 9:6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood is shed, for in the
image of Elohim has He made man.
Gen 9:7 “As for you, bear fruit and increase, bring forth teemingly in the
earth and increase in it.”
Gen 9:8 And Elohim spoke to Noaḥ and to his sons with him, saying,
Gen 9:9 “And I, see, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed
after you,
Gen 9:10 and with every living creature that is with you: of the birds, of the
cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark,
every beast of the earth.
Gen 9:11 “And I shall establish My covenant with you, and never again is
all flesh cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again is there a flood to
destroy the earth.”
Gen 9:12 And Elohim said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make
between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for all
generations to come:
Gen 9:13 “I shall set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of
the covenant between Me and the earth.
Gen 9:14 “And it shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the
rainbow shall be seen in the cloud,
Gen 9:15 and I shall remember My covenant which is between Me and you
and every living creature of all flesh, and never again let the waters become
a flood to destroy all flesh.
Gen 9:16 “And the rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I shall see it, to
remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and every living creature
of all flesh that is on the earth.”
Gen 9:17 And Elohim said to Noaḥ, “This is the sign of the covenant which I
have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Gen 9:18 And the sons of Noaḥ who went out of the ark were Shĕm and Ḥam
and Yepheth. And Ḥam was the father of Kena‛an.
Gen 9:19 These three were the sons of Noaḥ, and all the earth was
overspread from them.
Gen 9:20 And Noaḥ, a man of the soil, began and planted a vineyard.
Gen 9:21 And he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in
his tent.
Gen 9:22 And Ḥam, the father of Kena‛an, saw the nakedness of his father,
and told his two brothers outside.
Gen 9:23 So Shĕm and Yepheth took a garment, laid it on both their
shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father, but
their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Gen 9:24 And Noaḥ awoke from his wine, and he knew what his younger
son had done to him,
Gen 9:25 and he said, “Cursed is Kena‛an, let him become a servant of
servants to his brothers.”
Gen 9:26 And he said, “Blessed be יהוה, the Elohim of Shĕm, and let
Kena‛an become his servant.
Gen 9:27 “Let Elohim enlarge Yepheth, and let him dwell in the tents of
Shĕm. And let Kena‛an become his servant.”
Gen 9:28 And Noaḥ lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
Gen 9:29 So all the days of Noaḥ were nine hundred and fifty years, and he
died.