Genesis 9 (NET)

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Genesis 9:1¹Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 1:28 Gen 9:7 Gen 8:17 Gen 1:22 Isa 51:2 Ps 128:3-4 Gen 10:32 Gen 2:3 Gen 24:60 Gen 9:19

Genesis 9:2²Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 8:4-8 Gen 1:28 Hos 2:18 Jas 3:7 Ezek 34:25 Job 5:22-23 Lev 26:6 Gen 2:19 Gen 35:5 Lev 26:22

Genesis 9:3³You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 14:14 1 Tim 4:3-5 Col 2:21-22 Deut 12:15 1 Cor 10:31 1 Cor 10:25-26 Col 2:16 1 Cor 10:23 Acts 10:12-15 Ps 104:14-15

Genesis 9:4⁴“But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:23 Deut 12:16 Deut 15:23 Acts 15:20 Lev 7:26 Acts 15:29 Lev 17:10-14 Lev 3:17 Lev 19:26 1 Sam 14:33-34

Genesis 9:5⁵For your lifeblood I will surely exact punishment, from every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person I will exact punishment for the life of the individual since the man was his relative.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 21:28-29 Exod 21:12 Gen 4:9-10 Num 35:31-33 Ps 9:12 Deut 21:1-9 Exod 20:13 Lev 19:16 Matt 23:35

Genesis 9:6⁶“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 24:17 Matt 26:52 Rev 13:10 Exod 21:12-14 Num 35:33 Gen 1:26-27 Jas 3:9 Gen 5:1 1 Kgs 2:28-34 Gen 4:14

Genesis 9:7⁷“But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 9:1 Gen 1:28 Gen 9:19 Gen 8:17

Genesis 9:8⁸God said to Noah and his sons,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 9:9⁹“Look. I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after youCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 6:18 Isa 54:9-10 Rom 1:3 Gen 17:7-8 Gen 9:11 Gen 9:17 Gen 22:17 Jer 33:20 Jer 31:35-36

Genesis 9:10¹⁰and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature of the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 145:9 Gen 8:1 Gen 9:15-16 Job 38:1-41 Job 41:1-34 Jonah 4:11 Ps 36:5-6

Genesis 9:11¹¹I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 54:9 Gen 8:21-22 2 Pet 3:7 Gen 7:21-23 2 Pet 3:11

Genesis 9:12¹²And God said, “This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 17:11 Matt 26:26-28 Exod 12:13 1 Cor 11:23-25 Exod 13:16 Gen 9:17

Genesis 9:13¹³I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 1:28 Rev 10:1 Rev 4:3

Genesis 9:14¹⁴Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 9:15¹⁵then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 7:9 Ezek 16:60 Isa 54:8-10 Exod 28:12 1 Kgs 8:23 Lev 26:42-45 Ps 106:45 Jer 14:21 Luke 1:72 Neh 9:32

Genesis 9:16¹⁶When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:40 Isa 54:8-10 2 Sam 23:5 Gen 17:13 Gen 17:19 Heb 13:20 Gen 17:7 Gen 8:21-22 Gen 9:9-11 Isa 55:3

Genesis 9:17¹⁷So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 9:18¹⁸The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 10:1 Gen 10:6 Gen 9:25-27 Gen 9:23 1 Chr 1:4

Genesis 9:19¹⁹These were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 1:4-28 Gen 10:2-32 Gen 5:32 Gen 8:17

Genesis 9:20²⁰Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 20:6 Deut 28:30 Eccl 5:9 Gen 3:18-19 Gen 3:23 Gen 4:2 Gen 5:29 Isa 28:24-26 Prov 10:11 Prov 12:11

Genesis 9:21²¹When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 2:15-16 Prov 20:1 Prov 23:31-32 Gal 5:21 Titus 2:2 1 Cor 10:12 Eccl 7:20 Gen 19:32-36 Gen 6:9 Rom 13:13

Genesis 9:22²²Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers who were outside.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 30:17 Gal 6:1 1 Cor 13:6 Matt 18:15 Ps 40:15 Gen 10:15-19 Gen 10:6 Obad 1:12-13 Ps 70:3 1 Chr 1:13-16

Genesis 9:23²³Shem and Japheth took the garment and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they did not see their father’s nakedness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gal 6:1 Exod 20:12 1 Pet 2:17 1 Pet 4:8 1 Tim 5:1 1 Tim 5:17 1 Tim 5:19 Lev 19:32 Rom 13:7

Genesis 9:24²⁴When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 9:25²⁵So he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 27:16 Josh 9:23 Judg 1:28-30 1 Kgs 9:20-21 John 8:34 Josh 9:27 2 Chr 8:7-8 Gen 9:22 Deut 28:18 Gen 49:7

Genesis 9:26²⁶He also said, “Worthy of praise is the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 144:15 Gen 12:1-3 Heb 11:16 Deut 33:26 Gen 10:10-26 Gen 27:37 Luke 3:23-36 Rom 9:5 Gen 27:40

Genesis 9:27²⁷May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 11:12 Rom 15:12 Eph 2:13-14 Eph 3:6 Heb 11:9-10 Eph 2:19 Eph 3:13 Hos 2:14 Isa 11:10 Mal 1:11

Genesis 9:28²⁸After the flood Noah lived 350 years.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 9:29²⁹The entire lifetime of Noah was 950 years, and then he died.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 5:27 Gen 5:32 Ps 90:10 Gen 11:11-25 Gen 5:20 Gen 5:5

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