Genesis 9

Matthew^{(i) 1} And God blessed Noe & hys sonnes, and said vnto them: Encreace & multiply and fyll the earth. ² The feare also & dreade of you be vpon all beastes of the earthe, and vppon all foules of the ayre, & vpon al that crepeth on the earth, and vpon all fyshes of the sea, whych are geuen vnto your handes. ³ And all that moueth vpon the earth hauynge lyfe, shall be your meat: Euen as the grene herbes so giue I you al thinge. ⁴ Onely the flesh with his lyfe whych is his bloude se that you eate not. ⁵ For verily the bloude of you wherin youre lyues are wyl I require: Euen of the hand of all beastes wyll I requyre it, and of the hande of man and of the hand of euerye mannes brother wyll I requyre the lyfe of man: ⁶ so that he whych sheadeth mans bloud shal haue his bloud shed by man againe: for God made man after hys owne lykenesse. ⁷ Se that ye encrease, and waxe, and be occupied vpon the earth, & multiply therin. ⁸ Furthermore God spake vnto Noe & to hys sonnes with him, sayinge: ⁹ See, I make my bond with you & your seed after you, ¹⁰ & wyth all lyuynge thynge that is wyth you: both foule & cattel, & al maner beastes of the earth that is with you, of al that commeth out of the arcke, whatsoeuer beast of the earth it be. ¹¹ I make my bonde wyth you, that hence forth all fleshe shal not be destroied with the waters of any floud, & that hence forth there shall not be a floud to destroy the earth. ¹² And God sayd: This is the token of my bond which I make betwene me and you, & betwene all lyuyng thyng that is wyth you foreuer: ¹³ I wyll set my bowe in the cloudes, & it shall be a sygne of the appointment made betwene me & the earth: ¹⁴ so that when I bring in cloudes vpon the earth, the bowe shal appere in the cloudes. ¹⁵ And then wyll I thinke vpon my testament whych I haue made betwene me and you, and all that lyueth whatsoeuer fleshe it be. So that henceforth there shall be no more waters to make a floude to destroy all fleshe. ¹⁶ The bowe shal be in the cloudes, & I wil loke vpon it, to remembre the euerlastynge testament betwene God & all that lyueth vpon the earth, whatsoeuer fleshe it be. ¹⁷ And God sayed vnto Noe: Thys is the sygne of the testament which I haue made betwene me and all fleshe that is on the earth. ¹⁸ The sonnes of Noe that came oute of the arcke were: Sem, Ham and Iapheth. And Ham he is the father of Canaan. ¹⁹ These are the thre sonnes of Noe, and of these was all the world ouerspreade. ²⁰ And Noe beynge an husband man, went forth & planted a vineyarde, ²¹ & dranke of the wyne & was droncke, and lay vncouered in the middest of hys tent. ²² And Ham the father of Canaan sawe hys fathers priueties, and told hys .ij. brethren that were without. ²³ And Sem and Iapheth toke a mantyll, & put it on boeth theyr shoulders and went bacward, & couered theyr fathers secretes, but theyr faces were backewarde, so that they sawe not theyr fathers nakednes. ²⁴ As sone as Noe was awaked frome hys wyne, & wyste what hys yongest sonne had done vnto him, ²⁵ he said: Cursed be Canaan, & a seruant of al seruantes be he to hys brethren. ²⁶ And he sayed: Blessed be the Lorde God of Sem, & Canaan be his seruant. ²⁷ God encrease Iapheth, that he maye dwel in the tentes of Sem. And Canan be theyr seruant. ²⁸ And Noe lyued after the floud thre hundred and fyfty yere: ²⁹ so that all the dayes of Noe were .ix. hundred & fyfty yere & then he died.