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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"><title>Genesis 9 Amplified Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../topmenuchap/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">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/genesis/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Covenant of the Rainbow</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The fear and the terror of you shall be [instinctive] in every animal of the land and in every bird of the air; and together with everything that moves on the ground, and with all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; I give you everything, as <i>I gave</i> you the green plants <i>and</i> vegetables. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But you shall not eat meat along with its life, <i>that is,</i> its blood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For your lifeblood I will most certainly require an accounting; from every animal [that kills a person] I will require it. And from man, from every man’s brother [that is, anyone who murders] I will require the life of man. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Whoever sheds man’s blood [unlawfully], <t><p class="indent1">By man (judicial government) shall his blood be shed, <t><p class="indent1">For in the image of God <t><p class="indent1">He made man. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“As for you, be fruitful and multiply; <t><p class="indent1">Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Now behold, I am establishing My covenant (binding agreement, solemn promise) with you and with your descendants after you <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and with every living creature that is with you--the birds, the livestock, and the wild animals of the earth along with you, of everything that comes out of the ark--every living creature of the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the water of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to destroy <i>and</i> ruin the earth.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And God said, “This is the token (visible symbol, memorial) of the [solemn] covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I set My rainbow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>It shall come about, when I bring clouds over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the clouds, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and I will [compassionately] remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again will the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When the rainbow is in the clouds and I look at it, I will [solemnly] remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And God said to Noah, “This [rainbow] is the sign of the covenant (solemn pledge, binding agreement) which I have established between Me and all living things on the earth.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. Ham would become the father of Canaan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>These are the three sons of Noah, and from these [men] the whole earth was populated <i>and</i> scattered with inhabitants. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Noah began to farm <i>and</i> cultivate the ground and he planted a vineyard. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he was uncovered <i>and</i> lay exposed inside his tent. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Ham, the father of Canaan, saw [by accident] the nakedness of his father, and [to his father’s shame] told his two brothers outside. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So Shem and Japheth took a robe and put it on both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When Noah awoke from his wine [induced stupor], he knew what his younger son [Ham] had done to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So he said, <p class="indent1stline">“Cursed be Canaan [the son of Ham]; <t><p class="indent1"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>A servant of servants <t><p class="indent1">He shall be to his brothers.” <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He also said, <p class="indent1stline">“Blessed be the LORD, <t><p class="indent1">The God of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Shem; <t><p class="indent1">And let Canaan be his servant. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“May God enlarge [the land of] Japheth, <t><p class="indent1">And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>let <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>him dwell in the tents of Shem; <t><p class="indent1">And let Canaan be his servant.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> The words of Noah are prophetic. God later found the disobedience of the Canaanites to be repulsive and replaced them with the descendants of Shem.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> The Jewish people are the descendants of Shem. Through Shem’s lineage came the Messiah and salvation.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> Note that “let” in this verse represents a command, as in “Let there be light” (1:3).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> The antecedent of the word “him” could be Japheth, but it could also be “God,” thus making Him (the Messiah) dwell in the tents of Shem indicating the incarnation in the Semitic line.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>