God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
The fear of you and the dread of you will come upon every animal of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens. Everything which moves on the ground and all the fish of the sea are given into your hand.
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As with the green plants, I have now given everything to you.
But flesh with its life, its blood, you are not to eat.
Surely I will require a reckoning for your lifeblood—from the hand of every animal I will require it, and from the hand of every man. From the hand of a brother human I will require a reckoning for the life of a human.
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood is to be shed, for God made man in his own image.
Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”
God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
“And I, behold, I now establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you,
and with every living soul that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark; every animal of the earth.
I will establish my covenant with you; all flesh will not be cut off again by the waters of a flood, nor will there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for all generations to come:
I set my bow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
And when I cloud the earth with clouds and the bow is seen in the clouds,
I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh, and the waters will never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
When the bow is in the cloud, I will look at it, remembering the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul of all flesh that is on the earth.”
Then God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Noah's Descendants
The sons of Noah who went out from the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth (Ham is the father of Canaan).
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth spread out.
Noah began to be a man of the soil, and planted a vineyard.
He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered inside his tent.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.
But Shem and Japheth took a cloak and laid it on both their shoulders and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
He said, “Cursed be Canaan; he will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
And he said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Canaan will be his servant.
God will enlarge Japheth. He will dwell in the tents of Shem. Canaan will be his servant.”
Noah lived 350 years after the flood.
So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and then he died.