| 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And the fear of you and the dread
of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the
heavens; With all wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the
sea, into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth
shall be food for you; As the green herb have I given you all. 4 But flesh
with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require;
At the hand of every beast will I require it. And at the hand of man, even at
the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso
sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God
made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I,
behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle,
and every beast of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even
every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you;
neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood;
neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God
said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and
every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do
set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me
and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, 15 and I will remember my
covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh;
and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And
the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember
the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh
that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of
the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon
the earth.
18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham,
and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These three were the sons
of Noah: and of these was the whole earth overspread.
20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and 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 youngest 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 Jehovah, the God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
27 God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan 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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