New American Standard Bible 2020
Genesis 9:2-29
2The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you. 3Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, 1as I gave the green plant. 4But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, 2its blood. 5I certainly will require 34your lifeblood; 56from every animal I will require it. And 7from every person, 8from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.69Whoever sheds human blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For 10in the image of God He made mankind.7As for you, 11be fruitful and multiply; 12Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
8Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9“Now behold, 13I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your 14descendants after you; 10and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth. 11I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall 15never again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, 16nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12God said, “This is 17the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for 18all future generations; 13I have set My 19rainbow in the cloud, and it shall 20serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. 14It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, 15and 21I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and 22never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16When the rainbow is in the cloud, then I will look at it, to remember the 23everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17And 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.”
18Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and 24Ham was the father of Canaan. 19These three were the sons of Noah, and 25from these the whole earth was 26populated.
20Then Noah began 27farming and planted a vineyard. 21He drank some of the wine and 28became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. 22Ham, the father of Canaan, 29saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it on both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were 30turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness. 24When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him. 25So he said, “31Cursed be Canaan; 3233A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers.” 26He also said, “34Blessed be the Lord, The God of Shem; And may Canaan be 35his servant.2736May God enlarge Japheth, And may he live in the tents of Shem; And may Canaan be 37his servant.”
28Noah lived 350 years after the flood. 29So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.
Notes
- 1. Genesis 9:3 Gen 1:29 ↩
- 2. Genesis 9:4 Lev 7:26f; 17:10-16; 19:26; Deut 12:16, 23; 15:23; 1 Sam 14:34; Acts 15:20, 29 ↩
- 3. Genesis 9:5 Lit your blood of your lives ↩
- 4. Genesis 9:5 Ex 20:13; 21:12 ↩
- 5. Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of ↩
- 6. Genesis 9:5 Ex 21:28, 29 ↩
- 7. Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of ↩
- 8. Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of ↩
- 9. Genesis 9:6 Ex 21:12-14; Lev 24:17; Num 35:33; Matt 26:52 ↩
- 10. Genesis 9:6 Gen 1:26, 27 ↩
- 11. Genesis 9:7 Gen 9:1 ↩
- 12. Genesis 9:7 Lit Swarm in the earth ↩
- 13. Genesis 9:9 Gen 6:18 ↩
- 14. Genesis 9:9 Lit seed ↩
- 15. Genesis 9:11 Gen 8:21 ↩
- 16. Genesis 9:11 Is 54:9 ↩
- 17. Genesis 9:12 Gen 9:13, 17; 17:11 ↩
- 18. Genesis 9:12 Or everlasting generations ↩
- 19. Genesis 9:13 Ezek 1:28 ↩
- 20. Genesis 9:13 Lit be for ↩
- 21. Genesis 9:15 Lev 26:42, 45; Deut 7:9; Ezek 16:60 ↩
- 22. Genesis 9:15 Gen 9:11 ↩
- 23. Genesis 9:16 Gen 17:13, 19; 2 Sam 23:5 ↩
- 24. Genesis 9:18 Gen 9:25-27; 10:6 ↩
- 25. Genesis 9:19 Gen 9:1, 7; 10:32; 1 Chr 1:4 ↩
- 26. Genesis 9:19 Lit scattered ↩
- 27. Genesis 9:20 Lit to be a farmer ↩
- 28. Genesis 9:21 Prov 20:1 ↩
- 29. Genesis 9:22 Hab 2:15 ↩
- 30. Genesis 9:23 Lit backward ↩
- 31. Genesis 9:25 Deut 27:16 ↩
- 32. Genesis 9:25 I.e., The lowest of servants ↩
- 33. Genesis 9:25 Josh 9:23 ↩
- 34. Genesis 9:26 Gen 14:20; 24:27 ↩
- 35. Genesis 9:26 Or their ↩
- 36. Genesis 9:27 Gen 10:2-5; Is 66:19 ↩
- 37. Genesis 9:27 Or their ↩
Commentaries on Genesis 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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