¹ 神赐福给挪亚和他的儿子，对他们说：你们要生养众多，遍满了地。

² 凡地上的走兽和空中的飞鸟都必惊恐，惧怕你们，连地上一切的昆虫并海里一切的鱼都交付你们的手。

³ 凡活着的动物都可以作你们的食物。这一切我都赐给你们，如同菜蔬一样。

⁴ 惟独肉带着血，那就是他的生命，你们不可吃。

⁵ 流你们血、害你们命的，无论是兽是人，我必讨他的罪，就是向各人的弟兄也是如此。

⁶ 凡流人血的，他的血也必被人所流，因为神造人是照自己的形像造的。

⁷ 你们要生养众多，在地上昌盛繁茂。

⁸ 神晓谕挪亚和他的儿子说：

⁹ 我与你们和你们的後裔立约，

¹⁰ 并与你们这里的一切活物─就是飞鸟、牲畜、走兽，凡从方舟里出来的活物─立约。

¹¹ 我与你们立约，凡有血肉的，不再被洪水灭绝，也不再有洪水毁坏地了。

¹² 神说：我与你们并你们这里的各样活物所立的永约是有记号的。

¹³ 我把虹放在云彩中，这就可作我与地立约的记号了。

¹⁴ 我使云彩盖地的时候，必有虹现在云彩中，

¹⁵ 我便记念我与你们和各样有血肉的活物所立的约，水就再不泛滥、毁坏一切有血肉的物了。

¹⁶ 虹必现在云彩中，我看见，就要记念我与地上各样有血肉的活物所立的永约。

¹⁷ 神对挪亚说：这就是我与地上一切有血肉之物立约的记号了。

¹⁸ 出方舟挪亚的儿子就是闪、含、雅弗。含是迦南的父亲。

¹⁹ 这是挪亚的三个儿子，他们的後裔分散在全地。

²⁰ 挪亚作起农夫来，栽了一个葡萄园。

²¹ 他喝了园中的酒便醉了，在帐棚里赤着身子。

²² 迦南的父亲含看见他父亲赤身，就到外边告诉他两个弟兄。

²³ 於是闪和雅弗拿件衣服搭在肩上，倒退着进去，给他父亲盖上；他们背着脸就看不见父亲的赤身。

²⁴ 挪亚醒了酒，知道小儿子向他所作的事，

²⁵ 就说：迦南当受咒诅，必给他弟兄作奴仆的奴仆；

²⁶ 又说：耶和华─闪的神是应当称颂的！愿迦南作闪的奴仆。

²⁷ 愿神使雅弗扩张，使他住在闪的帐棚里；又愿迦南作他的奴仆。

²⁸ 洪水以後，挪亚又活了三百五十年。

²⁹ 挪亚共活了九百五十岁就死了。

¹ Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

² The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

³ The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁴ The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

⁵ Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

⁶ The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

⁷ The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

⁸ Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."

¹⁰ The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

¹¹ Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

¹² and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).

¹³ Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

¹⁴ Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

¹⁵ Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,

¹⁶ the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

¹⁷ the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,

¹⁸ the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

¹⁹ The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.

²¹ To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

²² The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

²³ The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

²⁴ Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.

²⁵ To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.

²⁶ Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

²⁹ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

³⁰ Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

³¹ These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.