1: God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth!
2: Every living creature--birds, animals, fish--will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You're responsible for them.
3: All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else.
4: Except for meat with its lifeblood still in it--don't eat that.
5: "But your own lifeblood I will avenge; I will avenge it against both animals and other humans.
6: Whoever sheds human blood, by humans let his blood be shed, Because God made humans in his image reflecting God's very nature.
7: You're here to bear fruit, reproduce, lavish life on the Earth, live bountifully!"
8: Then God spoke to Noah and his sons:
9: "I'm setting up my covenant with you including your children who will come after you,
10: along with everything alive around you--birds, farm animals, wild animals--that came out of the ship with you.
11: I'm setting up my covenant with you that never again will everything living be destroyed by floodwaters; no, never again will a flood destroy the Earth."
12: God continued, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you.
13: I'm putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth.
14: From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud,
15: I'll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life.
16: When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth."
17: And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I've set up between me and everything living on the Earth."
18: The sons of Noah who came out of the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.
19: These are the three sons of Noah; from these three the whole Earth was populated.
20: Noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard.
21: He drank from its wine, got drunk and passed out, naked in his tent.
22: Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his two brothers who were outside the tent.
23: Shem and Japheth took a cloak, held it between them from their shoulders, walked backwards and covered their father's nakedness, keeping their faces turned away so they did not see their father's exposed body.
24: When Noah woke up with his hangover, he learned what his youngest son had done.
25: He said, Cursed be Canaan! A slave of slaves, a slave to his brothers!
26: Blessed be GOD, the God of Shem, but Canaan shall be his slave.
27: God prosper Japheth, living spaciously in the tents of Shem. But Canaan shall be his slave.
28: Noah lived another 350 years following the flood.
29: He lived a total of 950 years. And he died. The Family Tree of Noah's Sons