Genesis 9

God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah

1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.2 Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you.t Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.t

3 You may eat any moving thing that lives.t As I gave yout the green plants, I now givet you everything.
4 Butt you must not eat meatt with its life (that is,t its blood) in it.ts

5 For your lifebloodt I will surely exact punishment,t fromt every living creature I will exact punishment. From each persont I will exact punishment for the life of the individualt since the man was his relative.t

6 “Whoever sheds human blood,t
by other humanst
must his blood be shed;
for in God’s images
Godt has made humankind.”

7 But as for you,s be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”
8 God said to Noah and his sons,t9 “Look! I now confirmt my covenant with you and your descendants after yout10 and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you – every living creature of the earth.t

11 I confirmt my covenant with you: Never again will all living thingst be wiped outt by the waters of a flood;t never again will a flood destroy the earth.”
12 And God said, “This is the guaranteet of the covenant I am makings with yout and every living creature with you, a covenantt for all subsequentt generations:13 I will placet my rainbows in the clouds, and it will becomet a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.14 Whenevert I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,15 then I will remember my covenant with yout and with all living creatures of all kinds.t Never again will the waters become a flood and destroyt all living things.t

16 When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remembert the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

17 So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living thingst that are on the earth.”

The Curse of Canaan

18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)s

19 These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.t
20 Noah, a man of the soil,s began to plant a vineyard.t21 When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himselft inside his tent.22 Ham, the father of Canaan,s saw his father’s nakednessts and told his two brothers who were outside.

23 Shem and Japheth took the garmentt and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turnedt the other way so they did not see their father’s nakedness.
24 When Noah awoke from his drunken stuport he learnedt what his youngest son had donet to him.

25 So he said,
“Curseds be Canaan!s
The lowest of slavest
he will be to his brothers.”

26 He also said,
“Worthy of praise ist the Lord, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the slave of Shem!t

27 May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers!ts
May he livet in the tents of Shem
and may Canaan be his slave!”
28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

29 The entire lifetime of Noah was 950 years, and then he died.

Genesis 10

The Table of Nations

1 This is the accountt of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sonss were bornt to them after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheths were Gomer,s Magog,s Madai,s Javan,s Tubal,s Meshech,s and Tiras.s3 The sons of Gomer weres Askenaz,s Riphath,s and Togarmah.s4 The sons of Javan were Elishah,s Tarshish,s the Kittim,s and the Dodanim.s

5 From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.
6 The sons of Ham were Cush,s Mizraim,s Put,s and Canaan.s

7 The sons of Cush were Seba,s Havilah,s Sabtah,s Raamah,s and Sabteca.s The sons of Raamah were Shebas and Dedan.s
8 Cush was the father oft Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.9 He was a mighty huntert before the Lord.t (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”)10 The primary regionst of his kingdom were Babel,t Erech,s Akkad,s and Calneht in the land of Shinar.s11 From that land he wentt to Assyria,t where he built Nineveh,s Rehoboth-Ir,s Calah,s

12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.t
13 Mizraims was the father oft the Ludites,s Anamites,s Lehabites,s Naphtuhites,s

14 Pathrusites,s Casluhitess (from whom the Philistines came),t and Caphtorites.s
15 Canaan was the father oft Sidon his firstborn,s Heth,t16 the Jebusites,s Amorites,s Girgashites,s17 Hivites,s Arkites,s Sinites,s18 Arvadites,s Zemarites,s and Hamathites.s Eventually the families of the Canaanites were scattered19 and the borders of Canaan extendedt from Sidons all the way tot Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way tot Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.

21 And sons were also bornt to Shem (the older brother of Japheth),t the father of all the sons of Eber.
22 The sons of Shem were Elam,s Asshur,s Arphaxad,s Lud,s and Aram.s23 The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.ss24 Arphaxad was the father oft Shelah,s and Shelah was the father of Eber.s25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided,t and his brother’s name was Joktan.26 Joktan was the father oft Almodad,s Sheleph,s Hazarmaveth,s Jerah,s27 Hadoram, Uzal,s Diklah,s28 Obal,s Abimael,s Sheba,s29 Ophir,s Havilah,s and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.30 Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way tot Sephar in the eastern hills.

31 These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spreadt over the earth after the flood.

Genesis 11

The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel

1 The whole earths had a common language and a common vocabulary.t2 When the peoplet moved eastward,t they found a plain in Shinarts and settled there.3 Then they said to one another,t “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”t (They had brick instead of stone and tart instead of mortar.)t

4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavenst so thatt we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwiset we will be scattereds across the face of the entire earth.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the peoplet had startedt building.6 And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common languaget they have begun to do this, thent nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.t

7 Come, let’s go down and confuset their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”t
8 So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped buildingt the city.

9 That is why its name was calledt Babels – because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

The Genealogy of Shem

10 This is the account of Shem.
Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

11 And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had othert sons and daughters.
12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had othert sons and daughters.s
14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had othert sons and daughters.
16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.

19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.

21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.

23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

The Record of Terah

27 This is the account of Terah.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans,s while his father Terah was still alive.t29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai,s and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah;s she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

32 The lifetimet of Terah was 205 years, and het died in Haran.