The Covenant of the Rainbow 1 DRA And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth. BSB BSB: And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
2 DRA And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand. BSB BSB: The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
3 DRA And every thing that moveth and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you: BSB BSB: Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
4 DRA Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat. BSB BSB: But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
5 DRA For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. BSB BSB: And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
6 DRA Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God. BSB BSB: Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
7 DRA But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth, and fill it. BSB BSB: But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
9 DRA Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you: BSB BSB: “Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
10 DRA And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth. BSB BSB: and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.
11 DRA I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth. BSB BSB: And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 DRA And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations. BSB BSB: And 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:
13 DRA I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me, and between the earth. BSB BSB: I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
14 DRA And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds: BSB BSB: Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
15 DRA And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh. BSB BSB: I 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.
16 DRA And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth. BSB BSB: And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”
17 DRA And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh upon the earth. BSB BSB: So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
Noah’s Shame and Canaan’s Curse 18 DRA And the sons of Noe who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan. BSB BSB: The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
19 DRA These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth. BSB BSB: These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
21 DRA And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent. BSB BSB: But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
22 DRA Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without. BSB BSB: And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
23 DRA But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. BSB BSB: Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
24 DRA And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him, BSB BSB: When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
25 DRA He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. BSB BSB: he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
Shem’s Blessing and Noah’s Death 26 DRA And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant. BSB BSB: He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
27 DRA May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant. BSB BSB: May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
28 DRA And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years: BSB BSB: After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.
29 DRA And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. BSB BSB: So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.