Genesis 9:1-11:32 And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

BBE⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full. ² And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands. ³ Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things. ⁴ But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food. ⁵ And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man. ⁶ Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image. ⁷ And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number. ⁸ And God said to Noah and to his sons, ⁹ Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you, ¹⁰ And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you. ¹¹ And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction. ¹² And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations: ¹³ I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth. ¹⁴ And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud, ¹⁵ And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh. ¹⁶ And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth. ¹⁷ And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth. ¹⁸ And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. ¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled. ²⁰ In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden. ²¹ And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent. ²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside. ²³ And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed. ²⁴ And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said, ²⁵ Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers. ²⁶ And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant. ²⁷ May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant. ²⁸ And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters; ²⁹ all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end. ¹⁰ ¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters ² The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. ³ And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. ⁴ And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim. ⁵ From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages. ⁶ And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. ⁷ And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. ⁸ And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth. ⁹ He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman. ¹⁰ And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ¹¹ From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah, ¹² And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town. ¹³ And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim; ¹⁴ And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines. ¹⁵ And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth, ¹⁶ And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite, ¹⁷ And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite, ¹⁸ And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions; ¹⁹ Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim. ²⁰ All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham. ²¹ And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition. ²² These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram. ²³ And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash. ²⁴ And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber. ²⁵ And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan. ²⁶ And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah ²⁷ And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah ²⁸ And Obal and Abimael and Sheba ²⁹ And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. ³⁰ And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east. ³¹ These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem. ³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters. ¹¹ ¹ And all the earth had one language and one tongue. ² And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place. ³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. ⁴ And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth. ⁵ And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building. ⁶ And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs. ⁷ Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another. ⁸ So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. ⁹ So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth. ¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters; ¹¹ And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ¹² And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah: ¹³ And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁴ And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber: ¹⁵ And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁶ And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg: ¹⁷ And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁸ And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu: ¹⁹ And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁰ And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug: ²¹ And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters: ²² And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor: ²³ And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁴ And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah: ²⁵ And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁶ And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. ²⁷ These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. ²⁸ And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees. ²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. ³⁰ And Sarai had no child. ³¹ And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time. ³² And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.