Genesis 9
9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth.
9:2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth,
and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the
fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
9:3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I
have given everything to you.
9:4 But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat.
9:5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal
I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother,
I will require the life of man.
9:6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image
of God made he man.
9:7 Be fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply
in it."
9:8 God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9:9 "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your
offspring after you,
9:10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and
every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every
animal of the earth.
9:11 I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off
any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to
destroy the earth."
9:12 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:
9:13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant
between me and the earth.
9:14 It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will
be seen in the cloud,
9:15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every
living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to
destroy all flesh.
9:16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember
the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that
is on the earth."
9:17 God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have
established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
9:18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Ham is the father of Canaan.
9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was
populated.
9:20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
9:21 He drank of the wine, and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his
two brothers outside.
9:23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went
in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were
backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness.
9:24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
9:25 He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his
brothers."
9:26 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant.
9:27 God enlarge Japheth, Let him dwell in the tents of Shem; Let Canaan be his
servant."
9:28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
9:29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
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