उत्पत्ति 9

1 फिर परमेश्वर ने नूह और उसके पुत्रों को आशीष दी और उन से कहा कि फूलो-फलो, और बढ़ो, और पृथ्वी में भर जाओ।

2 और तुम्हारा डर और भय पृथ्वी के सब पशुओं, और आकाश के सब पक्षियों, और भूमि पर के सब रेंगने वाले जन्तुओं, और समुद्र की सब मछलियों पर बना रहेगा: वे सब तुम्हारे वश में कर दिए जाते हैं।

3 सब चलने वाले जन्तु तुम्हारा आहार होंगे; जैसा तुम को हरे हरे छोटे पेड़ दिए थे, वैसा ही अब सब कुछ देता हूं।

4 पर मांस को प्राण समेत अर्थात लोहू समेत तुम न खाना।

5 और निश्चय मैं तुम्हारा लोहू अर्थात प्राण का पलटा लूंगा: सब पशुओं, और मनुष्यों, दोनों से मैं उसे लूंगा: मनुष्य के प्राण का पलटा मैं एक एक के भाई बन्धु से लूंगा।

6 जो कोई मनुष्य का लोहू बहाएगा उसका लोहू मनुष्य ही से बहाया जाएगा क्योंकि परमेश्वर ने मनुष्य को अपने ही स्वरूप के अनुसार बनाया है।

7 और तुम तो फूलो-फलो, और बढ़ो, और पृथ्वी में बहुत बच्चे जन्मा के उस में भर जाओ॥

8 फिर परमेश्वर ने नूह और उसके पुत्रों से कहा,

9 सुनों, मैं तुम्हारे साथ और तुम्हारे पश्चात जो तुम्हारा वंश होगा, उसके साथ भी वाचा बान्धता हूं।

10 और सब जीवित प्राणियों से भी जो तुम्हारे संग है क्या पक्षी क्या घरेलू पशु, क्या पृथ्वी के सब बनैले पशु, पृथ्वी के जितने जीवजन्तु जहाज से निकले हैं; सब के साथ भी मेरी यह वाचा बन्धती है:

11 और मैं तुम्हारे साथ अपनी इस वाचा को पूरा करूंगा; कि सब प्राणी फिर जलप्रलय से नाश न होंगे: और पृथ्वी के नाश करने के लिये फिर जलप्रलय न होगा।

12 फिर परमेश्वर ने कहा, जो वाचा मैं तुम्हारे साथ, और जितने जीवित प्राणी तुम्हारे संग हैं उन सब के साथ भी युग युग की पीढिय़ों के लिये बान्धता हूं; उसका यह चिन्ह है:

13 कि मैं ने बादल में अपना धनुष रखा है वह मेरे और पृथ्वी के बीच में वाचा का चिन्ह होगा।

14 और जब मैं पृथ्वी पर बादल फैलाऊं जब बादल में धनुष देख पड़ेगा।

15 तब मेरी जो वाचा तुम्हारे और सब जीवित शरीरधारी प्राणियों के साथ बान्धी है; उसको मैं स्मरण करूंगा, तब ऐसा जलप्रलय फिर न होगा जिस से सब प्राणियों का विनाश हो।

16 बादल में जो धनुष होगा मैं उसे देख के यह सदा की वाचा स्मरण करूंगा जो परमेश्वर के और पृथ्वी पर के सब जीवित शरीरधारी प्राणियों के बीच बन्धी है।

17 फिर परमेश्वर ने नूह से कहा जो वाचा मैं ने पृथ्वी भर के सब प्राणियों के साथ बान्धी है, उसका चिन्ह यही है॥

18 नूह के जो पुत्र जहाज में से निकले, वे शेम, हाम, और येपेत थे: और हाम तो कनान का पिता हुआ।

19 नूह के तीन पुत्र ये ही हैं, और इनका वंश सारी पृथ्वी पर फैल गया।

20 और नूह किसानी करने लगा, और उसने दाख की बारी लगाई।

21 और वह दाखमधु पीकर मतवाला हुआ; और अपने तम्बू के भीतर नंगा हो गया।

22 तब कनान के पिता हाम ने, अपने पिता को नंगा देखा, और बाहर आकर अपने दोनों भाइयों को बतला दिया।

23 तब शेम और येपेत दोनों ने कपड़ा ले कर अपने कन्धों पर रखा, और पीछे की ओर उलटा चलकर अपने पिता के नंगे तन को ढांप दिया, और वे अपना मुख पीछे किए हुए थे इसलिये उन्होंने अपने पिता को नंगा न देखा।

24 जब नूह का नशा उतर गया, तब उसने जान लिया कि उसके छोटे पुत्र ने उससे क्या किया है।

25 इसलिये उसने कहा, कनान शापित हो: वह अपने भाई बन्धुओं के दासों का दास हो।

26 फिर उसने कहा, शेम का परमेश्वर यहोवा धन्य है, और कनान शेम का दास होवे।

27 परमेश्वर येपेत के वंश को फैलाए; और वह शेम के तम्बुओं में बसे, और कनान उसका दास होवे।

28 जलप्रलय के पश्चात नूह साढ़े तीन सौ वर्ष जीवित रहा।

29 और नूह की कुल अवस्था साढ़े नौ सौ वर्ष की हुई: तत्पश्चात वह मर गया।

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

2 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 all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

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

4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

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

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

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

8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

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

10 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.

11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

1 O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.

2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.

3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

4 Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.

5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.

7 He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;

10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.

20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:

22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.

23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.

27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.

31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.

32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.

34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:

44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;

45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.