Genesis 9:13-29 ▼

13 I've set my rainbow in the sky to symbolize the covenant between me and the earth.

14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow becomes visible in the clouds,

15 I'll remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature, so that water will never again become a flood to destroy all living beings.

16 When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will observe it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living beings on the earth.|

17 God also told Noah, |This is the symbol of the covenant that I've established between me and everything that lives on the earth.|

18 Noah's sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham later fathered Canaan.)

19 These three were Noah's sons, and from these men the whole earth was repopulated.

20 Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant and farm a vineyard.

21 He drank some of the wine, got drunk, and lay down naked right in the middle of his tent.

22 Ham, who fathered Canaan, saw his father's genitals and told his two brothers outside.

23 Then Shem and Japheth took their father's cloak, laid it across both their shoulders, and walking backwards, they both covered their father's genitals. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's genitals.

24 When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

25 he said, |Canaan is cursed! He will be the lowest of slaves to his relatives.|

26 He also said, |Blessed be the LORD God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.

27 May God make room for Japheth; may God live in Shem's tents, and may Canaan serve him.|

28 Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

29 After Noah had lived a total of 950 years, he died.