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| 9:1 |
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
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| 9:2 |
"The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.
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| 9:3 |
"Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.
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| 9:4 |
"Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
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| 9:5 |
"Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man's brother I will require the life of man.
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| 9:6 |
"Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.
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| 9:7 |
"As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."
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| 9:8 |
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
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| 9:9 |
"Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;
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| 9:10 |
and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
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| 9:11 |
"I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth."
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| 9:12 |
God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;
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| 9:13 |
I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
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| 9:14 |
"It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,
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| 9:15 |
and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
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| 9:16 |
"When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
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| 9:17 |
And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth."
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| 9:18 |
Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
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| 9:19 |
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
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| 9:20 |
Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.
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| 9:21 |
He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
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| 9:22 |
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
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| 9:23 |
But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father's nakedness.
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| 9:24 |
When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.
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| 9:25 |
So he said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers."
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| 9:26 |
He also said, "Blessed be the Lord, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.
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| 9:27 |
"May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant."
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| 9:28 |
Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
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| 9:29 |
So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
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