Genesis 9 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Benedixitque Deus Noë et filiis ejus. Et dixit ad eos: Crescite, et multiplicamini, et replete terram.
1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 Et terror vester ac tremor sit super cuncta animalia terræ, et super omnes volucres cæli, cum universis quæ moventur super terram: omnes pisces maris manui vestræ traditi sunt.
2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
3 Et omne, quod movetur et vivit, erit vobis in cibum: quasi olera virentia tradidi vobis omnia.
3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
4 Excepto, quod carnem cum sanguine non comedetis.
4 But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
5 Sanguinem enim animarum vestrarum requiram de manu cunctarum bestiarum: et de manu hominis, de manu viri, et fratris ejus requiram animam hominis.
5 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
6 Quicumque effuderit humanum sanguinem, fundetur sanguis illius: ad imaginem quippe Dei factus est homo.
6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
7 Vos autem crescite et multiplicamini, et ingredimini super terram, et implete eam.
7 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly on the earth, and multiply in it.”
8 Hæc quoque dixit Deus ad Noë, et ad filios ejus cum eo:
8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
9 Ecce ego statuam pactum meum vobiscum, et cum semine vestro post vos:
9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
10 et ad omnem animam viventem, quæ est vobiscum, tam in volucribus quam in jumentis et pecudibus terræ cunctis, quæ egressa sunt de arca, et universis bestiis terræ.
10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
11 Statuam pactum meum vobiscum, et nequaquam ultra interficietur omnis caro aquis diluvii, neque erit deinceps diluvium dissipans terram.
11 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 Dixitque Deus: Hoc signum fœderis quod do inter me et vos, et ad omnem animam viventem, quæ est vobiscum in generationes sempiternas:
12 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 arcum meum ponam in nubibus, et erit signum fœderis inter me et inter terram.
13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 Cumque obduxero nubibus cælum, apparebit arcus meus in nubibus:
14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
15 et recordabor fœderis mei vobiscum, et cum omni anima vivente quæ carnem vegetat: et non erunt ultra aquæ diluvii ad delendum universam carnem.
15 I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 Eritque arcus in nubibus, et videbo illum, et recordabor fœderis sempiterni quod pactum est inter Deum et omnem animam viventem universæ carnis quæ est super terram.
16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
17 Dixitque Deus ad Noë: Hoc erit signum fœderis, quod constitui inter me et omnem carnem super terram.
17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
18 Erant ergo filii Noë, qui egressi sunt de arca, Sem, Cham et Japheth: porro Cham ipse est pater Chanaan.
18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
19 Tres isti filii sunt Noë: et ab his disseminatum est omne genus hominum super universam terram.
19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
20 Cœpitque Noë vir agricola exercere terram, et plantavit vineam.
20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
21 Bibensque vinum inebriatus est, et nudatus in tabernaculo suo.
21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
22 Quod cum vidisset Cham, pater Chanaan, verenda scilicet patris sui esse nudata, nuntiavit duobus fratribus suis foras.
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
23 At vero Sem et Japheth pallium imposuerunt humeris suis, et incedentes retrorsum, operuerunt verenda patris sui: faciesque eorum aversæ erant, et patris virilia non viderunt.
23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.
24 Evigilans autem Noë ex vino, cum didicisset quæ fecerat ei filius suus minor,
24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
25 ait: [Maledictus Chanaan, servus servorum erit fratribus suis.]
25 He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
26 Dixitque: [Benedictus Dominus Deus Sem, sit Chanaan servus ejus.
26 He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.
27 Dilatet Deus Japheth, et habitet in tabernaculis Sem, sitque Chanaan servus ejus.]
27 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”
28 Vixit autem Noë post diluvium trecentis quinquaginta annis.
28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
29 Et impleti sunt omnes dies ejus nongentorum quinquaginta annorum: et mortuus est.
29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Ham
A son of Noah whose descendants filled the Table of Nations.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 9:18–25; 10:6–20
Japheth
A son of Noah, ancestor of the northern and coastland nations.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 9:18–27; 10:2–5
Noah
A righteous man who found favor with God and rode out the flood in an ark.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:28–9:29
Shem
Noah's blessed son, ancestor of the Semitic peoples and of Abraham.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 9:18–10:31; 11:10–26
Cross references (24)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Genesis 1:28; Genesis 9:7; Genesis 1:22; Genesis 8:17; Isaiah 51:2
- 2 Psalm 8:4–8; Hosea 2:18; James 3:7; Genesis 1:28; Leviticus 26:6
- 3 Romans 14:14; 1 Timothy 4:3–5; Colossians 2:21–22; Deuteronomy 12:15; 1 Corinthians 10:31
- 4 Deuteronomy 12:23; Deuteronomy 12:16; Deuteronomy 15:23; Acts 15:20; Leviticus 7:26
- 5 Exodus 21:28–29; Exodus 21:12; Genesis 4:9–10; Psalm 9:12; Numbers 35:31–33
- 6 Leviticus 24:17; Matthew 26:52; Revelation 13:10; Exodus 21:12–14; Numbers 35:33
- 7 Genesis 9:1; Genesis 1:28; Genesis 9:19; Genesis 8:17
- 9 Genesis 6:18; Isaiah 54:9–10; Romans 1:3; Genesis 9:11; Genesis 17:7–8
- 10 Psalm 145:9; Job 38:1–41; Job 41:1–34; Genesis 9:15–16; Psalm 36:5–6
- 11 Isaiah 54:9; Genesis 8:21–22; 2 Peter 3:7; Genesis 7:21–23; 2 Peter 3:11
- 12 Genesis 17:11; Matthew 26:26–28; Exodus 12:13; Exodus 13:16; Genesis 9:17
- 13 Ezekiel 1:28; Revelation 10:1; Revelation 4:3
- 15 Deuteronomy 7:9; Isaiah 54:8–10; Ezekiel 16:60; Exodus 28:12; Psalm 106:45
- 16 Jeremiah 32:40; Isaiah 54:8–10; Genesis 17:19; 2 Samuel 23:5; Genesis 17:13
- 18 Genesis 10:1; Genesis 10:6; Genesis 9:25–27; Genesis 9:23; 1 Chronicles 1:4
- 19 Genesis 10:2–32; 1 Chronicles 1:4–28; Genesis 8:17; Genesis 5:32
- 20 Proverbs 12:11; Isaiah 28:24–26; Deuteronomy 28:30; Deuteronomy 20:6; Genesis 3:23
- 21 Habakkuk 2:15–16; Proverbs 20:1; Proverbs 23:31–32; Galatians 5:21; Titus 2:2
- 22 Proverbs 30:17; Galatians 6:1; Matthew 18:15; 1 Corinthians 13:6; Psalm 40:15
- 23 Galatians 6:1; Exodus 20:12; 1 Peter 2:17; 1 Peter 4:8; Romans 13:7
- 25 Deuteronomy 27:16; Joshua 9:23; Judges 1:28–30; 1 Kings 9:20–21; Joshua 9:27
- 26 Psalm 144:15; Hebrews 11:16; Genesis 12:1–3; Genesis 27:37; Luke 3:23–36
- 27 Romans 15:12; Romans 11:12; Ephesians 3:6; Hebrews 11:9–10; Ephesians 2:13–14
- 29 Genesis 5:27; Psalm 90:10; Genesis 5:32; Genesis 5:20; Genesis 5:5
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… when he had slain his brother, "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to Me." And as their blood will be inquired after, He said to those with Noah, "For your blood of your souls will I require, [even] from the hand of all beasts;" and again, "Whosoever will shed man's blood, it shall be shed for his blood." In …
… was younger than the first and older than the last born--had sinned against him, he cursed him not in his own person, but in his son's (his own grandson's), in the words, "Cursed be the lad Canaan; a servant shall he be unto his brethren." Now Canaan was born of Ham, who, so far from covering his sleeping father's nakedness, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Which sort of thing was done with respect to man upon his creation, "For the dread of you," it is said, "and the fear of you shall be on the wild beasts," and it came not to pass, for he proved himself unworthy of the sovereignty, even as did Judas also.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… reason Jacob by his father's blessing became lord of Esau, in order that the foolish son, who had not intelligence, his proper guardian, might, even though he wished it not, be benefited by his prudent brother. So Canaan shall be "a servant unto his brethren" because, since his father Ham was unwise, he was uninstructed in virtue.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
… and our Lord's sufferings typically set forth, in the case of Noah, when he drank wine, and was drunken, and was uncovered within his tent, and his nakedness was exposed by his second son, and was carefully hidden by his elder and his younger sons. It is not necessary to mention the other circumstances in detail, as it is only …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)