The Covenant of the Rainbow
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Gen 1:28Gen 9:7Gen 8:17Gen 1:22Isa 51:2Psa 128:3-4Gen 10:32Gen 2:3 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. Psa 8:4-8Gen 1:28Hos 2:18Jas 3:7Ezk 34:25Job 5:22-23Lev 26:6Gen 2:19 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things. Rom 14:141Ti 4:3-5Col 2:21-22Deu 12:151Co 10:311Co 10:25-26Col 2:161Co 10:23 But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it. Deu 12:23Deu 12:16Deu 15:23Act 15:20Lev 7:26Act 15:29Lev 17:10-14Lev 3:17 And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man: Exo 21:28-29Exo 21:12Gen 4:9-10Num 35:31-33Psa 9:12Deu 21:1-9Exo 20:13Lev 19:16
Whoever sheds the blood of man, Lev 24:17Mat 26:52Rev 13:10Exo 21:12-14Num 35:33Gen 1:26-27Jas 3:9Gen 5:1
by man his blood will be shed;
for in His own image
God has made mankind.
But as for you, Gen 9:1Gen 1:28Gen 9:19Gen 8:17
be fruitful and multiply;
spread out across the earth
and multiply upon it.”
Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, “Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you, Gen 6:18Isa 54:9-10Rom 1:3Gen 17:7-8Gen 9:11Gen 9:17Gen 22:17Jer 33:20 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark. Psa 145:9Gen 8:1Gen 9:15-16Job 38:1-41Job 41:1-34Jon 4:11Psa 36:5-6 And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” Isa 54:9Gen 8:21-222Pe 3:7Gen 7:21-232Pe 3:11
And 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: Gen 17:11Mat 26:26-28Exo 12:131Co 11:23-25Exo 13:16Gen 9:17Jos 2:12 I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. Ezk 1:28Rev 10:1Rev 4:3
Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Deu 7:9Ezk 16:60Isa 54:8-10Exo 28:121Ki 8:23Lev 26:42-45Psa 106:45Jer 14:21 And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.” Jer 32:40Isa 54:8-102Sa 23:5Gen 17:13Gen 17:19Heb 13:20Gen 17:7Gen 8:21-22
So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
Noah’s Shame and Canaan’s Curse
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. Gen 10:1Gen 10:6Gen 9:25-27Gen 9:231Ch 1:4 These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated. 1Ch 1:4-28Gen 10:2-32Gen 5:32Gen 8:17
Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded 1to plant a vineyard. Deu 20:6Deu 28:30Ecc 5:9Gen 3:18-19Gen 3:23Gen 4:2Gen 5:29Isa 28:24-26 But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent. Hab 2:15-16Pro 20:1Pro 23:31-32Gal 5:21Tit 2:21Co 10:12Ecc 7:20Gen 19:32-36 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside. Pro 30:17Gal 6:11Co 13:6Mat 18:15Psa 40:15Gen 10:15-19Gen 10:6Oba 1:12-13
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness. Gal 6:1Exo 20:121Pe 2:171Pe 4:81Ti 5:11Ti 5:171Ti 5:19Lev 19:32
When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, he said, Deu 27:16Jos 9:23Jdg 1:28-301Ki 9:20-21Jhn 8:34Jos 9:272Ch 8:7-8Gen 9:22
“Cursed be Canaan!
A servant of servants
shall he be to his brothers.”
Shem’s Blessing and Noah’s Death
He also declared: Psa 144:15Gen 12:1-3Heb 11:16Deu 33:26Gen 10:10-26Gen 27:37Luk 3:23-36Rom 9:5
“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
May God expand the territory of Japheth; 2 Rom 11:12Rom 15:12Eph 2:13-14Eph 3:6Heb 11:9-10Eph 2:19Eph 3:13Hos 2:14
may he dwell in the tents of Shem,
and may Canaan be his servant.”
After the flood, Noah lived 350 years. So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died. Gen 5:27Gen 5:32Psa 90:10Gen 11:11-25Gen 5:20Gen 5:5