¹⁵ Then God said to Noah, ¹⁶ “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.^{(A) 17} Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”^(B)

¹⁸ So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.^{(C) 19} All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

²⁰ Then Noah built an altar to the Lord^(D) and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean^(E) birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings^(F) on it. ²¹ The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma^(G) and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground^(H) because of humans, even though^[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.^(I) And never again will I destroy^(J) all living creatures,^(K) as I have done.

The Sons of Noah

¹⁸ The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth.^(A) (Ham was the father of Canaan.)^{(B) 19} These were the three sons of Noah,^(C) and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.^(D)

²⁰ Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded^[a] to plant a vineyard. ²¹ When he drank some of its wine,^(E) he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. ²² Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked^(F) and told his two brothers outside. ²³ But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

²⁴ When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, ²⁵ he said,

²⁶ He also said,

²⁸ After the flood Noah lived 350 years.