Genesis
Chapter 9
1- And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, ” Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2- And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
God puts man over the animals.
3- Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4- But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5- And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
Lives can be translated as souls. The word is the plural form of “nephesh.”
6- Whoso sheddeth a man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made He man.
7- And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.”
8- And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9- “And I, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you;
I, behold , I is for emphasis.
Covenant will be mentioned seven times here from verse 9-17. Seven is the number of spiritual completeness.
10- And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of earth.
Creature is “nephesh” again, so it is soul.
11- And I will establish My covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.”
A promise from God.
12- And God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13- I do set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.
14- And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15- And I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16- And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”
The phrase, “everlasting covenant,” is used 13 times in the Old Testament and once in the New Testament for a total of 14 occurences.
17- And God said unto Noah, “This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”
18- And the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19- These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
20- And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21- And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22- And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
See Leviticus 18:8 and 20:11; which reads, “And the man who lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” So Ham committed a perversion by having an incestuous affair with his mother or Noah’s wife, could also be a stepmother.
23- And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
24- And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Younger than Japheth but not Shem.
25- And he said, ” Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servant’s shall he be unto his brethren.”
Note it is Noah who curses Canaan, not God. Noah is upset that Canaan was born from an incestuous affair between Ham and Noah’s wife.
26- And he said, ” Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27- God shall enlarge Japheth, and he should dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.”
28- And noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29- And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.