Sáng Thế Ký 9

God blesses Noah and his sons

¹Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ²Every animal on the earth, every bird of the sky, every creature that moves along the ground and all the fish of the sea will fear you and dread you. They are placed in your power. ³Every living thing that moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. ⁴But you must not eat meat that still has its lifeblood in it. ⁵And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand it from every animal, and from every human being: from each person I will demand an accounting for the life of another. ⁶Whoever sheds human blood, by a human being that person’s blood will be shed; for God made human beings in his own image. ⁷As for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread over the earth and multiply on it.”

The covenant and the bow in the clouds

⁸Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, ⁹“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants 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. ¹¹I establish my covenant with you: never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again will there 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, for all generations to come: ¹³I have set my bow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, ¹⁵I will remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. ¹⁶When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind on 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.”

Noah’s sons

¹⁸The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. ¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and from them came all the people who spread over the earth. ²⁰Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. ²¹When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. ²²Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and went out and told his two brothers.^{a 23}But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it across their shoulders and walked in backward to cover their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away, so they did not see their father naked. ²⁴When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, ²⁵he said, “Cursed be Canaan! He will be the lowest of servants to his brothers.” ²⁶He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be his servant. ²⁷May God make room for Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem. May Canaan be his servant.”^{b 28}After the flood Noah lived 350 years. ²⁹Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died.