3 I gave you bush tucker to eat, and now I’m giving you meat to eat too. You can eat anything that moves. 4 But I’m telling you this about blood. Blood is important. It keeps a body alive. So don’t eat any blood. You have to drain the blood out of the animal before you eat it. Don’t eat any meat that still has the blood in it.[b] 5 And I will punish anyone and anything that kills a person dead. If an animal kills somebody, it has to die. And it is the same for a person that kills another person, that murderer has to die. 6 You see, I made people to be like myself, so they are important. So if somebody kills another person dead, you have to kill that murderer dead.[c]
7 But I want you mob to have lots of kids, so that there will be lots of people everywhere on the earth.”[d]
8 Then God told Noah and his sons, 9 “I promise this to you and to your kids, and to all the people that will be born later on. 10 And I promise this to all the animals that live on the earth too, all the birds, and all the wild animals, and all the animals that are not wild. I promise this to all of the animals that came out of the big boat with you. 11 I promise that there will never again be a real big flood of water that will finish up everything on the earth. There will never again be a big flood that kills all the people and animals.”
17 And God said to Noah, “This is very important. That rainbow will help you remember that I myself promised that for every living thing.”
20 Soon after Noah came out of the big boat, he started growing a garden. He planted some grape vines, and they grew some grapes. Then he made some wine from those grapes. 21 Noah drank some of that wine and got drunk. He took his clothes off and went to sleep in his tent. 22 Ham (Canaan’s father) went into the tent and saw his naked father. Ham didn’t respect his father, so he went outside and told his brothers what happened. 23 Shem and Jafeth got a coat. They held it over their shoulders and walked backwards into the tent. They put the coat on their father to cover his naked body. They didn’t turn around and look at their naked father.
24 After Noah woke up, he found out what Ham, his youngest son, did to him. 25 Then Noah said, “I’m going to curse Canaan, Ham’s son. He will have to work hard for his relatives, without pay. 26 God is good. I’m going to ask God to look after Shem, but Canaan will work hard for him with no pay. 27 I’m going to ask God to give Jafeth a big country. Jafeth and Shem will share that country, and Canaan will work hard for them with no pay.”
28 Noah lived for another 350 years after the flood. 29 He died when he was 950 years old.
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- b Leviticus 7:26-27; 17:10-14; 19:26; Deuteronomy 12:16, 23; 15:23
- c Genesis 1:26; Exodus 20:13; 21:12
- d Genesis 1:28