11. I make this agreement with you: I will never again destroy all living things by floodwaters. A flood will never again destroy the earth.”
12. And God said, “I am making an agreement between me and you and every living creature that is with you. It will continue from now on. This is the sign:
13. I am putting my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of the agreement between me and the earth.
14. When I bring clouds over the earth, a rainbow appears in the clouds.
15. Then I will remember my agreement. It is between me and you and every living thing. Floodwaters will never again destroy all life on the earth.
16. When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it. Then I will remember the agreement that continues forever. It is between me and every living thing on the earth.”
17. So God said to Noah, “That rainbow is a sign. It is the sign of the agreement that I made with all living things on earth.”
18. The sons of Noah came out of the boat with him. They 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. He drank wine made from his grapes. Then he became drunk and lay naked in his tent.
22. Ham, the father of Canaan, looked at his naked father. Ham told his brothers outside.