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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 NLT</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> <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="../">NLT</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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/genesis/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">God Confirms His Covenant</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, all the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the fish in the sea will look on you with fear and terror. I have placed them in your power. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But you must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“And I will require the blood of anyone who takes another person’s life. If a wild animal kills a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a fellow human must die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If anyone takes a human life, that person’s life will also be taken by human hands. For God made human beings<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> in his own image. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then God told Noah and his sons, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and with all the animals that were on the boat with you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals—every living creature on earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Yes, I am confirming my covenant with you. Never again will floodwaters kill all living creatures; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then God said, “I am giving you a sign of my covenant with you and with all living creatures, for all generations to come. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters destroy all life. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then God said to Noah, “Yes, this rainbow is the sign of the covenant I am confirming with all the creatures on earth.”</p><p class="hdg">Noah’s Sons</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>From these three sons of Noah came all the people who now populate the earth.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then Shem and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did this, they looked the other way so they would not see him naked.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When Noah woke up from his stupor, he learned what Ham, his youngest son, had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“May Canaan be cursed!</p><p class="line2">May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then Noah said,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“May the LORD, the God of Shem, be blessed,</p><p class="line2">and may Canaan be his servant!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>May God expand the territory of Japheth!</p><p class="line1">May Japheth share the prosperity of Shem,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line2">and may Canaan be his servant.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Noah lived another 350 years after the great flood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He lived 950 years, and then he died.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">man;</span><span class="ft"> Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">ha-adam.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:27 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">May he live in the tents of Shem.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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