Explanation: Genesis 9 contains the details of God's covenant with Noah, begun in the previous chapter. God blessed Noah and his sons with fruitfulness and gave them control over all the animals of the earth. For food, he gave them all the animals and all the herbs, but restricted them from eating blood and forbade them to shed the blood of men upon the penalty of their own death by the hand of others. This general permission to eat any of the animals indicates that, after the flood, all of the animals were now clean. Likewise, several Scriptures (Mark 7:14-23; Acts 15:29; Romans 14:14; 1 Timothy 4:4) indicate that the Mosaic distinctions between clean and unclean were also done away in the New Testament (1-7). And God promised not to destroy everything with a flood anymore, in token of which, he established the rainbow as a sign of the covenant (8-17). Afterward Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard. He became drunken with the wine form the vineyard and was naked in his tent. And when Ham, the father of Canaan, saw it, he told his brothers Shem and Japheth, and they took a garment and covered Noah's nakedness. Upon awakening, Noah cursed Canaan, (perhaps because he had some undisclosed part in the sin against Noah), and blessed Shem and Japheth, making Canaan their servant, and prophesying that Japheth would dwell in the tents of Shem. Thus, additional details were added to Noah's covenant (18-29).
     [ Sermons: Andrew Davis. William Still. Various. ]
     [ Illustration: Today's paintings depict the events of today's chapter. Image 1 depict's Noah's sacrifice which he made after leaving the ark. God responds with promises, symbolized by a rainbow. Image 2 depicts Noah and his family leaving the mountain upon which the ark landed. From there Noah found a place to live, and his descendants spread throughout the earth. Image 3 depicts the drunkenness of Noah and the response of his sons. ]

     ¹⁸ And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. ¹⁹ These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. ²⁰ And Noah began to be an husbandman [a man of the soil], and he planted a vineyard: ²¹ And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. ²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. ²³ And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. ²⁴ And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. ²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. ²⁶ And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. ²⁷ God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. ²⁸ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. ²⁹ And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

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