1Deus abençoou Noé e os seus filhos e disse-lhes que se multiplicassem e repovoassem a Terra.2“Todas as criaturas da Terra, assim como os pássaros e os peixes, terão medo de vocês”, disse-lhes Deus. “Porque coloquei-os sob o vosso domínio.3Servirão para vosso alimento e subsistência, para além da comida de origem vegetal.4Mas nunca comam a carne com a sua vida, isto é, com o sangue.5Nunca assassinem um ser humano. Pedir-vos-ei contas do sangue humano que tenham feito derramar. E até aos animais que matarem criaturas humanas pedirei contas do sangue que derramaram, porque era a sua vida.6Quem assassinar um ser humano terá de morrer, pois ele foi feito à imagem de Deus.7Multipliquem-se pois, repovoem a Terra e subjuguem-na.”8Deus disse mais a Noé e aos seus filhos:9“Faço a minha aliança contigo, com todos os teus descendentes,10e não só em relação a esses, mas a todo o ser vivo que trouxeste contigo durante o dilúvio.11Estabeleço a minha aliança contigo. Nunca mais mandarei à Terra uma cheia semelhante que destrua tudo o que existe.12E este será o sinal da aliança eterna que faço convosco, e com todos os seres vivos que estão convosco:13aparecerá um arco nas nuvens, como sinal da minha aliança com a Terra.14Quando o céu se acumular de nuvens e houver chuva, há de aparecer esse arco,15como lembrança da minha aliança contigo e com todo o ser vivo, de que nunca mais destruirei a vida que existe, por meio de um dilúvio semelhante.16O arco, ao surgir entre as nuvens, lembrar-me-á desta aliança eterna, que existe entre mim e todos os seres vivos, com tudo o que vive na Terra.17Este é o sinal, para todos os seres que existem na Terra, da aliança que faço convosco”, disse Deus a Noé.
Os filhos de Noé
18Os nomes dos três filhos de Noé eram Sem, Cam e Jafete. Cam é aquele de quem descendem todos os cananeus.19Destes três vieram todos os povos da Terra.20Noé tornou-se agricultor, plantou vinhas e foi vinicultor.21Um dia, embriagou-se e despiu-se completamente dentro da sua tenda.22Cam, o pai de Canaã, viu o pai despido e foi chamar os outros dois irmãos.23Então Sem e Jafete pegaram numa capa e, de costas, com a capa suspensa pelos ombros, aproximaram-se do pai no meio da tenda e cobriram-o, sem o terem visto nu.24Quando Noé se refez da embriaguês e soube o que tinha acontecido, e a forma como Cam, o filho mais novo, tinha agido,25amaldiçoou os descendentes de Cam: “Malditos sejam os cananeus. Que se tornem escravos dos descendentes de Sem e de Jafete.”26E acrescentou: “Que o SENHOR Deus abençoe Sem. Que os cananeus o sirvam.27Que Deus abençoe Jafete e partilhe da prosperidade de Sem, e que os cananeus o sirvam igualmente.”28Noé viveu ainda 350 anos depois do dilúvio.29Tinha 950 anos quando morreu.
Gênesis 9
English Standard Version
de Crossway1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. (Gn 1:22; Gn 1:28; Gn 8:17)2The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. (Sl 8:6; Tg 3:7)3Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. (Gn 1:29; Dt 12:15; 1 Tm 4:3)4But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. (Lv 17:10; Lv 17:14; Dt 12:16; Dt 12:23; 1 Sm 14:33; At 15:20; At 15:29)5And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. (Gn 4:10; Ex 21:28)6“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image. (Gn 1:27; Gn 5:1; Ex 21:12; Ex 21:14; Lv 24:17; Nm 35:31; Nm 35:33; Mt 26:52; Tg 3:9; Ap 13:10)7And you,[1] be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”8Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,9“Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, (Gn 6:18; Gn 8:20)10and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth.11I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” (Is 54:9)12And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: (Gn 17:11)13I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. (Ez 1:28; Ap 4:3; Ap 10:1)14When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,15I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. (Lv 26:42; Lv 26:45; 1 Rs 8:23; Ez 16:60)16When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” (Gn 17:7; Gn 17:13; Gn 17:19)17God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Noah’s Descendants
18The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) (Gn 5:32; Gn 10:1)19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.[2] (Gn 10:32)20Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.[3]21He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.23Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.24When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, (Hc 2:15)25he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.” (Dt 27:16; Js 9:23; Jz 1:28; 1 Rs 9:20)26He also said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.27May God enlarge Japheth,[4] and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”28After the flood Noah lived 350 years.29All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.