Genesis nine.. a promise

 

GENESIS 9

God’s Covenant With Noah

1Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. Enjoy your wives, have babies, making more people.

2The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. 3Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. Before now the animals didn't fear humans because we were given a vegan diet. And then once Adam and Eve sinned and were kicked out of Eden, they were given orders for which kind of animals were okay to eat. Now, after the flood, all animals were given to humans to consume. Before, God gave them all the vegetation, and now God gave them everything to eat. 

4“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. In order to eat animals, you have to kill them first (and because they are afraid of you, hunting started. You would have to track them down because they're going to run away. But they must be fully dead and the blood drained from their bodies. 

5And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. If an animal kills an animal, that animal will be killed, too, and so on. The circle of life began. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

6“Whoever sheds human blood,

by humans shall their blood be shed;

for in the image of God

has God made mankind. This is where the death penalty started. You take another mans life, your life is gone, too. You disrespected the life of someone who was created by God, so therefore, you die as well. 

7As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.” This would be considered incest now, and because there are so many problems with our DNA and things passed down through families, that's why if we get pregnant by a family member, there will most likely be mutations and health issues. But because of the purity of the family line (just like with Adam and Eve), they were fine multiplying within their family. 

8Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

12And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. I just realized this is the first time man didn't name something. God named the rainbow. To my knowledge there had not been a rainbow before. 14Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

17So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.” The rainbow is a covenant with God that there will never again be a worldwide flood that will wipe out all life. Every time he sees the rain falling from the sky, he reminds us of this promise, and He is reminded as well. (Not that He forgets, because he doesn't. It's a metaphoric memory.)

The Sons of Noah

18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth. All three of Noah's sons repopulated the earth together. All of their descendants spread over the entire earth. 

20Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. 21When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. 23But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

24When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25he said,

“Cursed be Canaan!

The lowest of slaves

will he be to his brothers.”

26He also said,

“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!

May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

27May God extend Japheth’s territory;

may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,

and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”

When Noah woke up from his drunken sleep, to see that two his sons had taken care of him. He cursed the one son, who had only told the other two to help and had not helped himself, and therefore the two other brothers were in charge of him and his people. Canaan became slave to one older brother, and that older brother found solace and warmth in the other brothers' land.

28After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

Dude, Noah was 600 years old at the time of the flood.