¹ Ja Jumal õnnistas Noad ja tema poegi ning ütles neile: 'Olge viljakad, teid saagu palju ja täitke maa!

² Teid peavad kartma ja pelgama kõik maa loomad ja kõik taeva linnud, kõik, kes maa peal liiguvad, ja kõik mere kalad; need on teie kätte antud.

³ Kõik, mis liigub ja elab, olgu teile roaks; kõik selle annan ma teile nagu halja rohugi.

⁴ Kummatigi ei tohi te liha süüa ta hingega, see on: ta verega!

⁵ Tõepoolest, teie eneste verd ma nõuan taga: ma nõuan seda kõigilt loomadelt, ja ma nõuan inimestelt vastastikku inimese hinge!

⁶ Kes valab inimese vere, selle vere valab inimene, sest inimene on tehtud Jumala näo järgi!

⁷ Ja teie olge viljakad, teid saagu palju, siginege maa peal ja paljunege seal!'

⁸ Ja Jumal rääkis Noa ja tema poegadega, kes ta juures olid, ning ütles:

⁹ 'Mina, vaata, teen lepingu teiega ja teie järglastega pärast teid,

¹⁰ ja iga elava hingega, kes teie juures on: lindudega, kariloomadega ja kõigi metsloomadega, kes teie juures on, kõigiga, kes laevast välja tulid, kõigi maa loomadega.

¹¹ Ma teen teiega lepingu, et enam ei hävitata kõike liha uputusveega ja veeuputus ei tule enam maad rikkuma.'

¹² Ja Jumal ütles: 'Lepingu tähis, mille ma teen enese ja teie ja iga teie juures oleva elava hinge vahel igavesteks põlvedeks, on see:

¹³ ma panen pilvedesse oma vikerkaare ja see on lepingu tähiseks minu ja maa vahel.

¹⁴ Kui ma kogun maa kohale pilvi ja pilvedes nähakse vikerkaart,

¹⁵ siis ma mõtlen oma lepingule, mis on minu ja teie ja iga elava hinge vahel kõiges lihas, ja vesi ei saa enam kõike liha hävitavaks uputuseks.

¹⁶ Kui pilvedes on vikerkaar, siis ma vaatan seda ja mõtlen igavesele lepingule Jumala ja iga elava hinge vahel maa peal olevas kõiges lihas.'

¹⁷ Ja Jumal ütles Noale: 'See on selle lepingu tähis, mille ma olen teinud enese ja kõige liha vahel, mis maa peal on.'

¹⁸ Ja Noa pojad, kes laevast välja tulid, olid Seem, Haam ja Jaafet; ja Haam oli Kaanani isa.

¹⁹ Need kolm olid Noa pojad ja neist rahvastus kogu maa.

²⁰ Noa hakkas põllumeheks ja istutas viinamäe.

²¹ Ta jõi veini, jäi joobnuks ja ajas oma telgis enese paljaks.

²² Aga Haam, Kaanani isa, nägi oma isa paljast ihu ja rääkis sellest oma kahele vennale õues.

²³ Siis Seem ja Jaafet võtsid vaiba ja panid enestele õlgadele, läksid tagurpidi ja katsid kinni oma isa palja ihu; nende näod olid ära pööratud, nõnda et nad oma isa paljast ihu ei näinud.

²⁴ Kui Noa ärkas oma veiniuimast ja sai teada, mis ta noorem poeg oli teinud,

²⁵ siis ta ütles: 'Neetud olgu Kaanan, saagu ta oma vendadele sulaste sulaseks!'

²⁶ Ta ütles veel: 'Kiidetud olgu Issand, Seemi Jumal, ja Kaanan olgu tema sulane!

²⁷ Jumal andku avarust Jaafetile, ta elagu Seemi telkides ja Kaanan olgu tema sulane!'

²⁸ Ja Noa elas pärast veeuputust kolmsada viiskümmend aastat.

²⁹ Ja kõiki Noa elupäevi oli üheksasada viiskümmend aastat; siis ta suri.

¹ God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

² The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

³ The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

⁴ The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

⁵ The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁶ It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

⁷ and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

⁸ He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

⁹ but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

¹⁰ He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

¹¹ The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

¹² He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

¹³ It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

¹⁴ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

¹⁵ God spoke to Noah, saying,

¹⁶ "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

¹⁷ Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

¹⁸ Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

¹⁹ Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

²⁰ Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

²¹ Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

²² While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."