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God’s Covenant With Noah

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

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God’s Promise to Noah

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

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The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.

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And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.

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Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

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Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.

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“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

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

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And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

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Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

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“Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind.

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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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As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

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And as for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Bring forth abundantly in the earth
And multiply in it.”

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Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:

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

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“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you

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“And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your [a]descendants after you,

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and with every living creature that was with you — the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you — every living creature on earth.

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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 go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.

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I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

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Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

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And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

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And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

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I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

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I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

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Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

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It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;

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I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

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and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

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The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

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So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life 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 on the earth.”

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The Sons of Noah

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

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Noah and His Sons

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

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These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.

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

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Noah, a man of the soil, proceededa to plant a vineyard.

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And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.

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When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.

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Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.

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Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked 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 brothers outside.

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But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

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But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were [b]turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

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When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,

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So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.

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he said,
“Cursed be Canaan!
The lowest of slaves
will he be to his brothers.”

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Then he said:
“Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brethren.”

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He also said,
“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

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And he said:
“Blessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem,
And may Canaan be his servant.

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May God extend Japheth’sb territory;
may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”

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May God enlarge Japheth,
And may he dwell in the tents of Shem;
And may Canaan be his servant.”

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After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

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

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Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

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

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Genesis 9

Genesis 9