Douay Rheims Original ↷
Genesis 9 📜 📕 ↷
Covenant of the Rainbow
1 AND God blessed Noe and his sons, And he said to them: Increase & multiply, and replenish the earth.📜💬📚
2 And your terror and dread be it upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, with all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered to your hand.📜💬📚
3 And all that moveth and liveth shall be yours for meat: even as the green herbs have I delivered all to you.📜💬📚
4 Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.📜💬📚
5 For I will require the blood of your souls at the hands of all beasts: and at the hand of man, at the hand of each man, and of his brother, will I require the soul of man.📜💬📚
6 Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for to the image of God man was made.📜💬📚
7 But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth, and fill it.📜💬📚
8 Thus also said God to Noe, and his sons with him:📜💬📚
9 Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:📜💬📚
10 and with every living soul that is with you, as well in all fowls as in cattle & beasts of the earth that are come forth out of the ark, and in all beasts of the earth.📜💬📚
11 I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from hence-forth a flood to waste the earth.📜💬📚
12 And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and between every living soul, that is with you, for perpetual generations:📜💬📚
13 my bow will I set in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth.📜💬📚
14 And when I shall cover the element with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds:📜💬📚
15 and I shall remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood, to destroy all flesh.📜💬📚
16 And my bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and I shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.📜💬📚
17 And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I established between me & all flesh of the earth.📜💬📚
Noah's Shame and Canaan's Curse
18 The sons therefore of Noe, that came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham he is the father of Chanaan.📜💬📚
19 These three are the sons of Noe: and of these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.📜💬📚
20 And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.📜💬📚
21 And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and naked in his tabernacle.📜💬📚
22 Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit that his father's privities were bare, he told it to his two brethren abroad.📜💬📚
23 But indeed Sem and Japhet put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the privities of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father's privities.📜💬📚
24 And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,📜💬📚
25 he said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.📜💬📚
Shem's Blessing and Noah's Death
26 And he saith: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, Chanaan be his servant.📜💬📚
27 God enlarge Japheth, and dwell he in the tabernacles of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.📜💬📚
28 And Noe lived after the flood three hundred fifty years.📜💬📚
29 And all his days were in the whole nine hundred fifty years: and he died.📜💬📚
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