1Gud velsignede Noa og hans sønner: „Formér jer og bliv mange!” sagde han. „Spred jer over jorden.2Dyrene, fuglene og fiskene vil frygte for jer, fordi jeg har givet jer magt over dem.3Jeg har givet dem til jer, og I må gerne spise dem såvel som de grønne planter, jeg tidligere har givet jer.4Men fordi livet er i blodet, må I ikke spise kød, som stadig indeholder blod.5Menneskers livsblod vil jeg kræve hævn for. Ethvert dyr, som dræber et menneske, skal dø.6Ethvert menneske, der slår et andet menneske ihjel, skal henrettes for at have myrdet et levende væsen, som er skabt i Guds billede.7Formér jer og få mange børn så jeres efterkommere kan brede sig ud over hele jorden.”8Derpå sagde Gud til Noa og hans sønner:9„Jeg vil oprette min pagt med jer og jeres efterkommere10og med alle de dyr, som er kommet ud af arken sammen med jer:11Jeg vil aldrig mere sende en oversvømmelse, som udsletter alt liv på landjorden.12Og jeg vil give jer et synligt tegn på denne evige pagt, som jeg opretter med jer og alle levende væsener.13Jeg har sat min regnbue i skyerne. Den er tegn på mit evigtgyldige løfte til jer og til hele jorden.14Når jeg sender regn over jorden, og regnbuen kommer til syne,15så vil jeg huske mit løfte til jer og de andre levende væsener: at der aldrig igen vil komme en oversvømmelse, som ødelægger alt liv.16Når jeg ser regnbuen i skyerne, vil jeg huske min evige pagt med alle levende væsener på jorden.17Regnbuen er tegnet på denne pagt.”
Noas tre sønner
18Noas tre sønner, som var med i arken, hed Sem, Kam og Jafet, og fra dem nedstammer hele jordens befolkning. Det var Kam, der blev stamfar til kana’anæerne.20Noa dyrkede jorden, og han var den første, der plantede en vingård.21En dag drak han af vinen og blev stærkt beruset, så han smed tøjet og lå nøgen inde i sit telt.22Kam kom ind og så sin far nøgen. Han gik straks ud og fortalte sine brødre det.23Så tog Sem og Jafet en kappe over skuldrene, gik baglæns ind i teltet og tildækkede deres far. De vendte ryggen til, så de ikke så ham nøgen.24Da Noa vågnede og blev ædru, hørte han, hvad hans yngste søn havde gjort.25„Gud vil dømme Kana’an og hans efterkommere!” udbrød han. „Lad dem blive slaver for Sems og Jafets efterkommere.26Må Herren, min Gud, velsigne Sems slægt, og må kana’anæerne trælle for dem.27Må Gud give Jafets slægt meget land, må de trives som Sems slægt, og må kana’anæerne også trælle for dem.”28Noa levede endnu 350 år efter oversvømmelsen.29Han var 950 år gammel, da han døde.
English Standard Version
1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.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.3Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.4But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.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.6“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.7And you,* 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,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.”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:13I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.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.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.”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.)19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.*20Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.*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,25he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”26He also said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.27May God enlarge Japheth,* 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.
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