11. This is my promise to you: All life on the earth was destroyed by the flood. But that will never happen again. A flood will never again destroy all life on the earth.”
12. And God said, “I will give you something to prove that I made this promise to you. It will continue forever to show that I have made an agreement with you and every living thing on earth.
13. I am putting a rainbow in the clouds as proof of the agreement between me and the earth.
14. When I bring clouds over the earth, you will see the rainbow in the clouds.
15. When I see this rainbow, I will remember the agreement between me and you and every living thing on the earth. This agreement says that a flood will never again destroy all life on the earth.
16. When I look and see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the agreement that continues forever. I will remember the agreement between me and every living thing on the earth.”
17. So God said to Noah, “This rainbow is proof of the agreement that I made with all living things on earth.”
18. Noah’s sons came out of the boat with him. Their names were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
19. These three men were Noah’s sons. And all the people on earth came from these three sons.
20. Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard.
21. One day Noah made some wine. He got drunk, went into his tent, and took off all his clothes.
22. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his brothers who were outside the tent.
23. Shem and Japheth took a robe, put it across their shoulders, and walked backward into the tent. Then they covered their father without looking at him.
24. Later, Noah woke up. (He was sleeping because of the wine.) When he learned what his youngest son Ham had done to him,
25. he said, “May there be a curse on Canaan! May he be a slave to his brothers.”
26. Noah also said, “May the Lord, the God of Shem, be praised! May Canaan be Shem’s slave.
27. May God give more land to Japheth. May God live in Shem’s tents, and may Canaan be their slave.”
28. After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
29. He lived a total of 950 years; then he died.