1 ¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.

2 And the fear of you and the dread of you will be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that moves on the earth, and upon all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.

3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as I gave you the green plants I give you all things.

4 However you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is its blood, in it.

5 And surely for your lives I will require a reckoning; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for God made man in his own image.

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

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

9 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; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

11 I confirm my covenant with you; that never again will all flesh be wiped out by the waters of a flood; nor will there ever again be a flood that destroys the earth.

12 ¶ And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:

13 I set my bow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow 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; and the waters will never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 The bow will be in the clouds; and I will look at it, and 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 were the three sons of Noah: and from them the whole earth was populated.

20 And Noah was the first to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard:

21 And he drank of the wine, and became drunken; and lay 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 ¶ When Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.

25 He said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren.

26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall 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 years.

29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.