God Makes a Covenant With Noah
1Then God blessed Noah and his sons. He said to them, “Have children so that there are many of you. Fill the earth. 2All the land animals will be afraid of you. All the birds in the sky will be afraid of you. Every creature that moves along the ground will be afraid of you. So will every fish in the seas. Every living thing is put under your control. 3Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. I have already given you the green plants for food. Now I am giving you everything.
4“But you must not eat meat that still has blood in it. 5I will certainly hold someone accountable if you are murdered. I will even hold animals accountable if they kill you. I will also hold anyone accountable who murders another person.
6“Anyone who murders a human being
will be killed by a human being.
That is because I have made human beings
so that they are like me.
7Have children so that there will be many of you. Multiply and become many on the earth.”
8Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons who were with him. He said, 9“I am now making my covenant with you and with all your children who will be born after you. 10I am making it also with every living creature that was with you in the ark. I am making my covenant with the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals. I am making it with all the creatures that came out of the ark with you. In fact, I am making it with every living thing on earth. 11Here is my covenant I am making with you. The waters of a flood will never again destroy all life. A flood will never again destroy the earth.”
12God continued, “My covenant is between me and you and every living creature with you. It is a covenant for all time to come. Here is the sign of the covenant I am making. 13I have put my rainbow in the clouds. It will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14Sometimes when I bring clouds over the earth, a rainbow will appear in them. 15Then I will remember my covenant between me and you and every kind of living creature. The waters will never again become a flood to destroy all life. 16When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it. I will remember that my covenant will last forever. It is a covenant between me and every kind of living creature on earth.”
17So God said to Noah, “The rainbow is the sign of my covenant. I have made my covenant between me and all life on earth.”
The Sons of Noah
18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. 19The people who were scattered over the earth came from Noah’s three sons.
20Noah was a man who farmed the land. He decided to plant a field that produced grapes for making wine. 21When he drank some of the wine, it made him drunk. Then he lay down inside his tent without any clothes on. 22Ham saw his father naked. Then Ham, the father of Canaan, went outside and told his two brothers. 23But Shem and Japheth picked up a piece of clothing and laid it across their shoulders. Then they walked backward into the tent. They covered their father’s body. They turned their faces away because they didn’t want to see their father naked.
24Then Noah woke up from his sleep that was caused by the wine. He found out what his youngest son had done to him. 25He said,
“May a curse be put on Canaan!
He will be the lowest of slaves to his brothers.”
26Noah also said,
“May the Lord, the God of Shem, be praised.
May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
27May God add land to Japheth’s territory.
May Japheth live in the tents of Shem.
And may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”
28After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29Noah lived a total of 950 years. And then he died.
عهد خدا با نوح
1خدا، نوح و پسرانش را بركت داد و به ايشان فرمود: «بارور و زياد شويد و زمين را پُر سازيد. 2-3همهٔ حيوانات و خزندگان زمين، پرندگان هوا و ماهيان دريا از شما خواهند ترسيد، زيرا همهٔ آنها را زير سلطهٔ شما قرار داده‌ام و شما می‌توانيد علاوه بر غلات و سبزيجات، از گوشت آنها نيز برای خوراک استفاده كنيد. 4اما گوشت را با خونش كه بدان حيات می‌بخشد نخوريد. 5-6كُشتن انسان جايز نيست، زيرا انسان شبيه خدا آفريده شده است. هر حيوانی كه انسانی را بكُشد بايد كشته شود. هر انسانی هم كه انسان ديگری را به قتل برساند، بايد به دست انسان كشته شود. 7و اما شما، فرزندان زياد توليد كنيد و زمين را پُر سازيد.»
8سپس خدا به نوح و پسرانش فرمود: 9-11«من با شما و با نسلهای آيندهٔ شما و حتی با تمام حيوانات، پرندگان و خزندگان عهد می‌بندم كه بعد از اين هرگز موجودات زنده را بوسيلهٔ طوفان هلاک نكنم و زمين را نيز ديگر بر اثر طوفان خراب ننمايم. 12اين است نشان عهد جاودانی من: 13رنگين‌كمان خود را در ابرها می‌گذارم و اين نشان عهدی خواهد بود كه من با جهان بسته‌ام. 14وقتی ابرها را بالای زمين بگسترانم و رنگين‌كمان ديده شود، 15آنگاه قولی را كه به شما و تمام جانداران داده‌ام به ياد خواهم آورد و ديگر هرگز تمام موجودات زنده به‌وسیلهٔ طوفان هلاک نخواهند شد. 16-17آری، رنگين‌كمان نشانهٔ عهد من است با تمام موجودات زندهٔ روی زمين.»
18سه پسر نوح كه از كشتی خارج شدند، سام و حام و يافث بودند. (حام پدر قوم كنعان است.) 19همه قومهای دنيا از سه پسر نوح به وجود آمدند.
20-21نوح به كار كشاورزی مشغول شد و تاكستانی غرس نمود. روزی كه شراب زياد نوشيده بود، در حالت مستی در خيمه‌اش برهنه خوابيد. 22حام، پدر كنعان، برهنگی پدر خود را ديد و بيرون رفته به دو برادرش خبر داد. 23سام و يافث با شنيدن اين خبر، ردايی روی شانه‌های خود انداخته عقب‌عقب به طرف پدرشان رفتند تا برهنگی او را نبينند. سپس او را با آن ردا پوشانيدند. 24-25وقتی نوح به حال عادی برگشت و فهميد كه حام چه كرده است، گفت:
«كنعان ملعون باد.9:24و25 کنعان، پسر حام بود و کنعانی‌ها که نسل کنعان بودند زير اين لعنت قرار گرفتند.
برادران خود را بندهٔ بندگان باشد.
26-27خداوند سام را بركت دهد و كنعان بندهٔ او باشد.
خدا يافث را بركت دهد و او را شريک سعادت سام گرداند،
و كنعان بندهٔ او باشد.»
28پس از طوفان، نوح ۳۵۰ سال ديگر عمر كرد 29و در سن ۹۵۰ سالگی وفات يافت.
