| New International Version | King James Bible |
| 1Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. | 1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. |
| 2The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. | 2And 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. |
| 3Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. | 3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. |
| 4"But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. | 4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. |
| 5And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being. | 5And surely your blood of your lives will I require; 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 human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind. | 6Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. |
| 7As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it." | 7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. |
| 8Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: | 8And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, |
| 9"I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you | 9And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; |
| 10and with every living creature that was with you--the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you--every living creature on earth. | 10And 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. |
| 11I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." | 11And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. |
| 12And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: | 12And 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: |
| 13I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. | 13I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. |
| 14Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, | 14And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: |
| 15I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. | 15And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. |
| 16Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." | 16And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. |
| 17So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth." | 17And 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. |
| 18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) | 18And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. |
| 19These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth. | 19These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. |
| 20Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. | 20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: |
| 21When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. | 21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. |
| 22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. | 22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. |
| 23But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked. | 23And 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. |
| 24When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, | 24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. |
| 25he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers." | 25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. |
| 26He also said, "Praise be to the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. | 26And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. |
| 27May God extend Japheth's territory; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth." | 27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. |
| 28After the flood Noah lived 350 years. | 28And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. |
| 29Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died. | 29And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. |
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