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# Genesis 9

Genesis 9 is chapter 9 of 50 in the Book of Genesis. Here are all 29 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> God blesseth Noe: forbiddeth blood, and promiseth never more to destroy the world by water. The blessing of Sem and Japheth.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Genesis 9 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And God blessed Noah and his sons. And he said to them: “Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.
2. And let the fear and trembling of you be upon all the animals of the earth, and upon all the birds of the air, along with all that moves across the earth. All the fish of the sea have been delivered into your hand.
3. And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you,
4. except that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
5. For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his brother, I will examine the life of mankind.
6. Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.
7. But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it.”
8. To Noah and to his sons with him, God also said this:
9. “Behold, I will establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
10. and with every living soul that is with you: as much with the birds as with the cattle and all the animals of the earth that have gone forth from the ark, and with all the wild beasts of the earth.
11. I will establish my covenant with you, and no longer will all that is flesh be put to death by the waters of a great flood, and, henceforth, there will not be a great flood to utterly destroy the earth.”
12. And God said: “This is the sign of the pact that I grant between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.
13. I will place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself and the earth.
14. And when I obscure the sky with clouds, my arc will appear in the clouds.
15. And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that enlivens flesh. And there will no longer be waters from a great flood to wipe away all that is flesh.
16. And the arc will be in the clouds, and I will see it, and I will remember the everlasting covenant that was enacted between God and every living soul of all that is flesh upon the earth.”
17. And God said to Noah, “This will be the sign of the covenant that I have established between myself and all that is flesh upon the earth.”
18. And so the sons of Noah, who came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now Ham himself is the father of Canaan.
19. These three are the sons of Noah. And from these all the family of mankind was spread over the whole earth.
20. And Noah, a good farmer, began to cultivate the land, and he planted a vineyard.
21. And by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked in his tent.
22. Because of this, when Ham, the father of Canaan, had indeed seen the privates of his father to be naked, he reported it to his two brothers outside.
23. And truly, Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their arms, and, advancing backwards, covered the privates of their father. And their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s manhood.
24. Then Noah, awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,
25. he said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.”
26. And he said: “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, let Canaan be his servant.
27. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”
28. And after the great flood, Noah lived for three hundred and fifty years.
29. And all his days were completed in nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.

## Genesis 9 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Benedixitque Deus Noë et filiis ejus. Et dixit ad eos: Crescite, et multiplicamini, et replete terram.
2. Et terror vester ac tremor sit super cuncta animalia terræ, et super omnes volucres cæli, cum universis quæ moventur super terram: omnes pisces maris manui vestræ traditi sunt.
3. Et omne, quod movetur et vivit, erit vobis in cibum: quasi olera virentia tradidi vobis omnia.
4. Excepto, quod carnem cum sanguine non comedetis.
5. Sanguinem enim animarum vestrarum requiram de manu cunctarum bestiarum: et de manu hominis, de manu viri, et fratris ejus requiram animam hominis.
6. Quicumque effuderit humanum sanguinem, fundetur sanguis illius: ad imaginem quippe Dei factus est homo.
7. Vos autem crescite et multiplicamini, et ingredimini super terram, et implete eam.
8. Hæc quoque dixit Deus ad Noë, et ad filios ejus cum eo:
9. Ecce ego statuam pactum meum vobiscum, et cum semine vestro post vos:
10. et ad omnem animam viventem, quæ est vobiscum, tam in volucribus quam in jumentis et pecudibus terræ cunctis, quæ egressa sunt de arca, et universis bestiis terræ.
11. Statuam pactum meum vobiscum, et nequaquam ultra interficietur omnis caro aquis diluvii, neque erit deinceps diluvium dissipans terram.
12. Dixitque Deus: Hoc signum fœderis quod do inter me et vos, et ad omnem animam viventem, quæ est vobiscum in generationes sempiternas:
13. arcum meum ponam in nubibus, et erit signum fœderis inter me et inter terram.
14. Cumque obduxero nubibus cælum, apparebit arcus meus in nubibus:
15. et recordabor fœderis mei vobiscum, et cum omni anima vivente quæ carnem vegetat: et non erunt ultra aquæ diluvii ad delendum universam carnem.
16. Eritque arcus in nubibus, et videbo illum, et recordabor fœderis sempiterni quod pactum est inter Deum et omnem animam viventem universæ carnis quæ est super terram.
17. Dixitque Deus ad Noë: Hoc erit signum fœderis, quod constitui inter me et omnem carnem super terram.
18. Erant ergo filii Noë, qui egressi sunt de arca, Sem, Cham et Japheth: porro Cham ipse est pater Chanaan.
19. Tres isti filii sunt Noë: et ab his disseminatum est omne genus hominum super universam terram.
20. Cœpitque Noë vir agricola exercere terram, et plantavit vineam.
21. Bibensque vinum inebriatus est, et nudatus in tabernaculo suo.
22. Quod cum vidisset Cham, pater Chanaan, verenda scilicet patris sui esse nudata, nuntiavit duobus fratribus suis foras.
23. At vero Sem et Japheth pallium imposuerunt humeris suis, et incedentes retrorsum, operuerunt verenda patris sui: faciesque eorum aversæ erant, et patris virilia non viderunt.
24. Evigilans autem Noë ex vino, cum didicisset quæ fecerat ei filius suus minor,
25. ait: Maledictus Chanaan, servus servorum erit fratribus suis.
26. Dixitque: Benedictus Dominus Deus Sem, sit Chanaan servus ejus.
27. Dilatet Deus Japheth, et habitet in tabernaculis Sem, sitque Chanaan servus ejus.
28. Vixit autem Noë post diluvium trecentis quinquaginta annis.
29. Et impleti sunt omnes dies ejus nongentorum quinquaginta annorum: et mortuus est.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2417: Respect for Persons and Their Goods ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2569: In the Old Testament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2260: Respect for Human Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 56: The Stages of Revelation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 58: The Stages of Revelation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 21: Noe by the judgment of the fathers was not guilty of sin, in being overcome by wine: because he knew not the strength of it.
- Verse 23: Thus, as St. Gregory takes notice L. 35; Moral. c. 22, we ought to cover the nakedness, that is, the sins, of our spiritual parents and superiors.
- Verse 25: The curses, as well as the blessings, of the patriarchs, were prophetical: And this in particular is here recorded by Moses, for the children of Israel, who were to possess the land of Chanaan. But why should Chanaan be cursed for his father's faults? The Hebrews answer, that he being then a boy, was the first that saw his grandfather's nakedness, and told his father Cham of it; and joined with him in laughing at it: which drew upon him, rather than upon the rest of the children of Cham, this prophetical curse.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Feb 14, 2027: First Sunday of Lent — First Reading, Genesis 9:8-15

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).