16. When the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature—every mortal being that is on earth.
17. God told Noah: This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and every mortal being that is on earth.
18. The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.
19. These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
20. Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.
21. He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and lay naked inside his tent.
22. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness, and he told his two brothers outside.