Genesis 9

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them,

“Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. ² And the fear of you and the dread of you will be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moves upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hands are they delivered. ³ Every moving thing that lives will be meat for you; even as the green herb, I have given you all things.

⁴ But flesh with the life in it, that is, the blood in it, you must not eat. ⁵ And surely your blood - of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man.

⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood,

by man will his blood be shed:

for in the image of God

He made man.

⁷ And you, be fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.

⁸ And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

⁹ “And I, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you, ¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. ¹¹ And I will establish My covenant with you, neither will all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of a flood; neither will there anymore be a flood to destroy the earth.”

¹² And God said,

“This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: ¹³ I do set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. ¹⁴ And it will come to pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the clouds. ¹⁵ And I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶ And the rainbow will be in the clouds; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”

¹⁷ And God said to Noah,

“This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”

¹⁸ And the sons of Noah, that went out of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. ¹⁹ These are the three sons of Noah, and of them was the whole earth overspread.

²⁰ And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. ²¹ And he drank of the wine, and became drunk; and he was uncovered within his tent. ²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. ²³ And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

²⁴ And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. ²⁵ And he said,

“Cursed be Canaan;

A servant of servants

Will he be to his brothers.”

²⁶ And he said,

“Blessed be the Lord God of Shem;

and Canaan will be his servant.

²⁷ God will enlarge Japheth,

and he will dwell in the tents of Shem;

and Canaan will be his servant.

²⁸ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty (350) years. ²⁹ And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty (950) years; and he died.

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Genesis 9 

The King Version (KING) 

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Editor’s note: 

1. in it vs. thereof 

2. that vs. which 

3. whoever vs. whoso 

4. in it vs. therein  

5. farmer vs. husbandman  

6. brothers vs. brethren 

7. outside vs. without