 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and He said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on the animals of the earth and on every bird of the air, on all that moves on the earth and on all the fish of the sea. They are all delivered to you. 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herb. 4 But you shall not eat of flesh with life in it or the blood of it. 5 Surely I will require the blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man. 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood shall be shed by man. For He made man in the image of God. 7 Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth and increase in it. 8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him saying, 9 Behold. I, even I, establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you. 10 Also with every living creature that is with you, of the birds, of the cattle, and of every animal of the earth with you. From all that go out from the ark, to every animal of the earth. 11 I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 For God said, This is the proof+ of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature with you, for everlasting generations. 13 I have set my rainbow in the cloud. It will be proof+ of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, a rainbow will be seen in the cloud. 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. The waters will never+ again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The rainbow will be in the cloud, and I will look upon it so that I remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh upon the earth. 17 God said to Noah, This is proof+ of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh upon the earth. 18 The sons of Noah who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah, and the whole earth was filled+ from them. 20 Then Noah became a husbandman and he planted a vineyard. 21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and was uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it on both their shoulders and they went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. They faced backwards so they did not see their father's nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine, he came to know what his younger son had done to him. 25 He said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers. 26 He said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God will enlarge Japheth and he will live in the tents of Shem and Canaan will be their servant. 28 Then Noah lived 350 years after the flood. 29 All the days of Noah were 950 years and he died.
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