Orthodox Jewish Bible

Bereshis 9:12-29 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

12. And Elohim said, This is the ot (sign) of the brit (covenant) which I make between Me and you and every nefesh chayyah (living creature) that is with you, for dorot olam (perpetual generations);

13. I do set My keshet (bow) in the anan (cloud), and it shall be for an ot brit between Me and ha'aretz.

14. And it shall come to pass, when I bring an anan over ha'aretz, that the keshet be'anan (rainbow) shall be seen;

15. And I will remember My brit, which is between Me and you and kol nefesh chayyah of kol basar; and the waters shall no more become a mabbul (flood) l'shachat (to destroy) kol basar.

16. And the keshet shall be in the anan; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the brit olam between Elohim and kol nefesh chayyah of kol basar that is upon ha'aretz.

17. And Elohim said unto Noach, This is the ot habrit, which I have established between Me and kol basar that is upon ha'aretz.

18. And the bnei Noach, that went forth of the tevah, were Shem, and Cham, and Yephet; and Cham is the av of Kena'an (Canaan).

19. Shloshah (Three) are the bnei Noach; and of them was the kol ha'aretz populated.

20. And Noach began to be an ish ha'adamah (a man of the soil), and he planted a kerem (vineyard);

21. And he drank of the yayin, and became shikker (intoxicated); and he lay uncovered inside his ohel.

22. And Cham, the av of Kena'an, saw the erom (nakedness) of his av, and told his two achim on the outside.

23. And Shem and Yephet took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backward, and covered the erom of their av; and their faces were turned the other way, and they saw not the erom of their av.

24. And Noach awoke from his yayin, and had da'as of what his ben katan had done unto him.

25. And he said, Arur (cursed) be Kena'an; an eved of avadim shall he be unto his achim.

26. And he said, Baruch Hashem Elohei Shem; and Kena'an shall be his eved.

27. Elohim shall enlarge Yephet, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Kena'an shall be his eved.

28. And Noach lived after the mabbul three hundred and fifty years.

29. And all the days of Noach were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.