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Covenant of the Rainbow

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

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The Covenant of the Rainbow

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

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“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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And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moveth [on] the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

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“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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Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.

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“Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

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Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

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“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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And indeed your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of Man, at the hand of each [the blood] of his brother, will I require the life of Man.

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“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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Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.

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“As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

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And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.

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Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

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And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

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“Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;

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And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

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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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and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark -- every animal of the earth.

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“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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And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.

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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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And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations:

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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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I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

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“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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And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

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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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and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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“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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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 soul of all flesh that is upon the earth.

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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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And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

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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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Noah's Sons

And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

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These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

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These three are the sons of Noah; and from these was [the population of] the whole earth spread abroad.

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Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.

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Noah's Shame and Canaan's Curse

And Noah began [to be] a husbandman, and planted a vineyard.

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He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

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And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered himself in his tent.

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Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

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And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren outside.

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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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And Shem and Japheth took the upper garment and both laid [it] upon their shoulders, and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned away, that they saw not their father's nakedness.

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When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

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And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest son had done to him.

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So he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers.”

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And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen to his brethren.

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He also said,
“Blessed be the LORD,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.

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Shem's Blessing and Noah's Death

And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.

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“May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”

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Let God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.

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Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

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And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

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So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

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And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

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Genesis 9

Genesis 9