Genesis 9:1-29 TLB

[1] God blessed Noah and his sons and told them to have many children and to repopulate the earth. [2] "All wild animals and birds and fish will be afraid of you," God told him; "for I have placed them in your power, and they are yours to use for food, in addition to grain and vegetables. [4] But never eat animals unless their life-blood has been drained off. [5] And murder is forbidden. Man-killing animals must die, and any man who murders shall be killed; for to kill a man is to kill one made like God. [7] Yes, have many children and repopulate the earth and subdue it." [8] Then God told Noah and his sons, [9] "I solemnly promise you and your children and the animals you brought with you-all these birds and cattle and wild animals-that I will never again send another flood to destroy the earth. [12] And I seal this promise with this sign: [13] I have placed my rainbow in the clouds as a sign of my promise until the end of time, to you and to all the earth. [14] When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will be seen in the clouds, [15] and I will remember my promise to you and to every being, that never again will the floods come and destroy all life. [16] For I will see the rainbow in the cloud and remember my eternal promise to every living being on the earth." [18] The names of Noah's three sons were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the ancestor of the Canaanites.) [19] From these three sons of Noah came all the nations of the earth. [20] Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard, and he made wine. One day as he was drunk and lay naked in his tent, [22] Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and went outside and told his two brothers. [23] Then Shem and Japheth took a robe and held it over their shoulders and, walking backwards into the tent, let it fall across their father to cover his nakedness as they looked the other way. [24] When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor, and learned what had happened and what Ham, his younger son, had done, he cursed Ham's descendants: "A curse upon the Canaanites," he swore. "May they be the lowest of slaves To the descendants of Shem and Japheth." [26] Then he said, "God bless Shem, And may Canaan be his slave. God bless Japheth, And let him share the prosperity of Shem, And let Canaan be his slave." [28] Noah lived another 350 years after the flood [29] and was 950 years old at his death.