Listening A1: Genesis Chapter 1 - Genesis 9

God blessed Noah and his sons.

He told them to have many children and fill the earth.

Every wild animal on earth and every bird in the sky will be afraid of you.

All the animals that move on the ground and all the fish in the sea are given to you.

Every living thing that moves can be food for you.

I give you all the green plants.

But you must not eat meat that still has blood in it.

I will ask for your blood and your life.

I will ask for it from every animal.

I will also ask a man to give the life of the man he hurts, even if that man is his brother.

If a man hurts another man and makes him die, another man must do the same to him.

God made man like himself.

You must have many children and fill the earth.

God spoke to Noah and his sons and said,

I will make a promise with you and your children.

I will also make it with every living animal with you, the birds, the cows, and every beast that came out of the ark.

I will keep my promise and there will not be another great flood to destroy all life on earth.

God said, This is the sign of the promise between me and you and all the animals, for all future years.

I put my bow in the cloud and it will be the sign of the promise between me and the earth.

When I bring a cloud over the earth, you will see the bow in the cloud.

I will remember my promise with you and every living thing, and the water will not rise again to destroy all life.

The bow will be in the cloud and I will look at it to remember the forever promise between God and all living things on earth.

God said to Noah, This sign shows the promise I made with all life on earth.

Noah's sons who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Ham was the father of Canaan.

These three were Noah's sons, and from them the whole earth was filled.

Noah became a farmer and planted a grape field.

He drank the wine and became drunk.

He was without clothes in his tent.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father without clothes and told his two brothers outside.

Shem and Japheth took a cloth, put it on their shoulders, and walked backwards.

They covered their father and did not look at him.

Noah woke up from the wine and knew what his youngest son had done.

He said,

Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

Noah lived nine hundred and fifty years and then he died.