God blessed Noah and his sons, commissioned them to be fruitful and multiply. He put a fear of man in the animals. Every moving thing shall be food for man, but they were not to eat flesh with blood in it – its life. God established a covenant with man and animals that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood. The sign of the covenant was a bow in the clouds. When God sees the bow in the clouds He will remember. Noah’s sons were Shem, Ham and Japheth, all people came from them. Noah became a man of the soil and got drunk on the wine he produced and lay naked in his tent. Ham, father of Canaan, saw Noah naked, told his brothers, they walked in backward to cover their father without seeing him. Noah woke and knew what Ham did and cursed Canaan, and blessed Shem and Japheth. Noah lived 950 years and died.
In God’s common grace He has promised not to pour out His judgment by flood. Also, we see that the sin continues in Ham’s interaction with Noah. Here we also see the decree of God’s punishment upon Canaan. God rules over all things and He continues to graciously bear with mankind, and makes promises that require nothing of men, but purely out of His perfections for His glory and our good.