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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 9 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</a> > Genesis 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/8.htm" title="Genesis 8">◄</a> Genesis 9 <a href="../genesis/10.htm" title="Genesis 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Covenant with Noah</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.</span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Whoever sheds the blood of a human,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">by a human shall that person’s blood be shed;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for in his own image</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">God made humankind.</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>And you, be fruitful and multiply, abound on the earth and multiply in it.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>“As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-216a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Noah and His Sons</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>The sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>These three were the sons of Noah; and from these the whole earth was peopled.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he lay uncovered in his tent. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>he said,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“Cursed be Canaan;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>He also said,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“Blessed by the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> my God be Shem;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and let Canaan be his slave.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>May God make space for<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-233b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> Japheth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and let him live in the tents of Shem;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and let Canaan be his slave.”</span></span></p></div> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>After the flood Noah lived three hundred fifty years. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years; and he died.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 9:10">Genesis 9:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb adds <i>every animal of the earth</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 9:27">Genesis 9:27</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>yapht</i>, a play on <i>Japheth</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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