Genesis 9:8-29

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth.
11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 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:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
17 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”

The Sons of Noah

18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded[a] to plant a vineyard.
21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,
25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.”
26 He also said, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
27 May God extend Japheth’s[b] territory; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”
28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
29 Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

Cross References 27

  • 1. ver 11; S Genesis 6:18
  • 2. ver 16; Isaiah 24:5; Isaiah 33:8; Hosea 6:7
  • 3. S ver 9
  • 4. S Genesis 8:21; Isaiah 54:9
  • 5. ver 17; Genesis 17:11
  • 6. Genesis 17:12; Exodus 12:14; Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 6:18; Leviticus 17:7; Numbers 10:8
  • 7. ver 14; Ezekiel 1:28; Revelation 4:3; Revelation 10:1
  • 8. S ver 13
  • 9. S Genesis 8:1; Exodus 2:24; Exodus 6:5; Exodus 34:10; Leviticus 26:42,45; Deuteronomy 7:9; Psalms 89:34; Psalms 103:18; Psalms 105:8; Psalms 106:45; Ezekiel 16:60
  • 10. S Genesis 8:21
  • 11. ver 13
  • 12. S ver 11; Ge 17:7,13,19; 2 Samuel 7:13; 2 Samuel 23:5; Psalms 105:9-10; Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 54:10; Isaiah 55:3; Isaiah 59:21; Isaiah 61:8; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Jeremiah 32:40; Jeremiah 33:21; Ezekiel 16:60; Ezekiel 37:26; S Hebrews 13:20
  • 13. S ver 12; Genesis 17:11
  • 14. S Genesis 5:32; Luke 3:36
  • 15. ver 25-27; Genesis 10:6,15
  • 16. Genesis 5:32
  • 17. S Genesis 1:22; Genesis 10:32; Genesis 11:4,8,9
  • 18. Genesis 19:35
  • 19. Habakkuk 2:15
  • 20. Genesis 27:12
  • 21. ver 18; Exodus 20:5; Psalms 79:8; Isaiah 14:21; Jeremiah 31:29; Jeremiah 32:18
  • 22. Genesis 25:23; Genesis 27:29,37,40; Genesis 37:10; Genesis 49:8; Numbers 24:18; Joshua 9:23
  • 23. Genesis 14:20; Exodus 18:10; Psalms 7:17
  • 24. 1 Kings 9:21
  • 25. Genesis 10:2-5
  • 26. Ephesians 2:13-14; Ephesians 3:6
  • 27. S Genesis 2:17

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or "soil, was the first"
  • [b]. "Japheth" sounds like the Hebrew for "extend."
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