Adam Αндреев

Chapter 9 [9:1] God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. [9:2] The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered. [9:3] Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. [9:4] Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. [9:5] For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life. [9:6] Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person's blood be shed; for in his own image God made humankind. [9:7] And you, be fruitful and multiply, abound on the earth and multiply in it." [9:8] Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, [9:9] "As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, [9:10] and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. [9:11] I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." [9:12] 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: [9:13] I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. [9:14] When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, [9:15] I 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. [9:16] When 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." [9:17] God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth." [9:18] The sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. [9:19] These three were the sons of Noah; and from these the whole earth was peopled. [9:20] Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. [9:21] He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he lay uncovered in his tent. [9:22] And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. [9:23] Then 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 away, and they did not see their father's nakedness. [9:24] When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, [9:25] he said, "Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers." [9:26] He also said, "Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave. [9:27] May God make space for Japheth, and let him live in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave." [9:28] After the flood Noah lived three hundred fifty years. [9:29] All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years; and he died.

Chapter 2 [2:1] Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. [2:2] And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. [2:3] So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation. [2:4] These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, [2:5] when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up - for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; [2:6] but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground - [2:7] then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. [2:8] And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. [2:9] Out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. [2:10] A river flows out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides and becomes four branches. [2:11] The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; [2:12] and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. [2:13] The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush. [2:14] The name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. [2:15] The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. [2:16] And the LORD God commanded the man, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; [2:17] but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die." [2:18] Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner." [2:19] So out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. [2:20] The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner. [2:21] So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. [2:22] And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. [2:23] Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken." [2:24] Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. [2:25] And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.