चप्टर 9

Well we are making up for chapter 8's lack of words. In chapter 9 God is telling Noah and his sons how the world is going to be different after the flood.

9:1-7 And the Lord blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful and mulitply, and replenish the earth.

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 the fishes of sea; into your hands are they delivered.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
(Ok took me a minute here, but we can eat the flesh as long as the blood is not longer in it)

And surely your blood or your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God made he man.

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

9:8-11 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you.

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 the earth.

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 be anymore be a flood to destroy the earth.

9:12 And God said, this is a token of the covenant which I make betweem Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a
covenant between me and the earth.

9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

9:15 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.
9:16 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.
9:17 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.
9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he
be unto his brethren.
9:26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall
be his servant.
(You'll have to read the story here why God has done the cursing and the blessing.)

Noah dies at the end of this chapter and we start in to a new era.