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God Confirms His Covenant

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.

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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All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, all the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the fish in the sea will look on you with fear and terror. I have placed them in your power.

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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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I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables.

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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 never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it.

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

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“And I will require the blood of anyone who takes another person’s life. If a wild animal kills a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a fellow human must die.

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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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If anyone takes a human life, that person’s life will also be taken by human hands. For God made human beingsa in his own image.

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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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Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth.”

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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 told Noah and his sons,

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

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“I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants,

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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 all the animals that were on the boat with you — the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals — 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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Yes, I am confirming my covenant with you. Never again will floodwaters kill all living creatures; never again will a flood 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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Then God said, “I am giving you a sign of my covenant with you and with all living creatures, 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 placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all 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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When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear 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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and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters 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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When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on 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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Then God said to Noah, “Yes, this rainbow is the sign of the covenant I am confirming with all the creatures on 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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Noah’s Sons

The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is 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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From these three sons of Noah came all the people who now populate the earth.

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

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After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.

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

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One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked 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 that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers.

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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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Then Shem and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did this, they looked the other way so they would not see him 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 woke up from his stupor, he learned what Ham, his youngest son, had done.

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

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Then he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham:
“May Canaan be cursed!
May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives.”

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

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Then Noah said,
“May the LORD, the God of Shem, be blessed,
and may Canaan be his servant!

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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 expand the territory of Japheth!
May Japheth share the prosperity of Shem,b
and may Canaan be his servant.”

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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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Noah lived another 350 years after the great flood.

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

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He lived 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