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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</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/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="/bmc//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="/genesis/">Genesis</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/genesis/9.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/genesis/9.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/genesis/9.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/genesis/9.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/genesis/9.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/genesis/9.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/genesis/9.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Covenant of the Rainbow<p class="reg"><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. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man: <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whoever sheds the blood of man, <p class="indent2"> by man his blood will be shed; <p class="indent1"> for in His own image <p class="indent2"> God has made mankind. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But as for you, <p class="indent2"> be fruitful and multiply; <p class="indent1"> spread out across the earth <p class="indent2"> and multiply upon it.” <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.” <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.” <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">Noah’s Shame and Canaan’s Curse<p class="reg"><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, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> to plant a vineyard. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside. <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>he said, <p class="indent1stline">“Cursed be Canaan! <p class="indent2"> A servant of servants <p class="indent2"> shall he be to his brothers.” <A name="27"></a><p class="hdg">Shem’s Blessing and Noah’s Death<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He also declared: <p class="indent1stline">“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! <p class="indent2"> May Canaan be the servant of Shem. <A name="28"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>May God expand the territory of Japheth;<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <p class="indent2"> may he dwell in the tents of Shem, <p class="indent2"> and may Canaan be his servant.” <A name="29"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>After the flood, Noah lived 350 years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>was the first</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>Japheth</i><span class="thin"> </span> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>expand</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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