# Genesis 9 (New King James Version)
God's Promise to Noah

##### Chapter 9
###### 1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.  
###### 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move _on_ the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.  
###### 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.  
###### 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, _that is,_ its blood.  
###### 5 Surely for your lifeblood I will demand _a reckoning;_ from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man.

###### 6 "Whoever sheds man's blood,  
By man his blood shall be shed;  
For in the image of God  
He made man.  

###### 7 And as for you, be fruitful and multiply;  
Bring forth abundantly in the earth  
And multiply in it."

###### 8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:  
###### 9 "And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,  
###### 10 and with every living creature that _is_ with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.  
###### 11 Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."

###### 12 And God said: "This _is_ the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that _is_ with you, for perpetual generations:  
###### 13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.  
###### 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;  
###### 15 and I will remember My covenant which _is_ between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.  
###### 16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that _is_ on the earth."  
###### 17 And God said to Noah, "This _is_ the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that _is_ on the earth."Noah and His Sons

###### 18 Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham _was_ the father of Canaan.  
###### 19 These three _were_ the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

###### 20 And Noah began _to be_ a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.  
###### 21 Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.  
###### 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.  
###### 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid _it_ on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces _were_ turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

###### 24 So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.  
###### 25 Then he said:
"Cursed _be_ Canaan;  
A servant of servants  
He shall be to his brethren."

###### 26 And he said:
"Blessed _be_ the Lord,  
The God of Shem,  
And may Canaan be his servant.  

###### 27 May God enlarge Japheth,  
And may he dwell in the tents of Shem;  
And may Canaan be his servant."

###### 28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.  
###### 29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.