¶ And God blessed¹ Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be² fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

³And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Every⁴ moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even⁵ as the green herb have I given you all things.

But flesh with the life⁶ thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every⁷ beast will I require it, and at⁸ the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother⁹ will I require the life of man.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by¹⁰ man shall his blood be shed: for in¹¹ the image of God made he man.

¹²And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

¹³And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

¶¹⁴And 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.

And I¹⁵ will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all¹⁶ flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

¶¹⁷And 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:

¹⁸I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

And I will remember¹⁹ my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters²⁰ shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting²¹ covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

¶ And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem²², and Ham²³, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan²⁴.

These²⁵ are the three sons of Noah: and of²⁶ them was the whole earth overspread.

¶ And Noah began to be an husbandman²⁷, and he planted²⁸ a vineyard:

And he drank of the wine, and was²⁹ drunken; and he³⁰ was uncovered within his tent.

And Ham³¹, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told³² his two brethren without.

³³And 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 saw not their father's nakedness.

¶ And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

And he said, Cursed³⁴ be Canaan; a servant³⁵ of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

And he said, Blessed³⁶ be the LORD³⁷ God of Shem³⁸; and Canaan shall be his servant³⁹.

God shall enlarge⁴⁰ Japheth, and he shall dwell⁴¹ in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

¶ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

And all the days of Noah were nine⁴² hundred and fifty years: and he died.