Genesis 9
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And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
earth; 2 and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on
every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on
the ground, and on all fishes of the sea--into your hand they have been given.
3 Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb
I have given to you the whole; 4 only flesh in its *life--its blood--ye
do not eat. 5 `And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand
of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of
every man's brother I require the life of man; 6 whoso sheddeth
man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made
man. 7 And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in
it.' 8 And God speaketh unto Noah, and unto his sons
with him, saying, 9 `And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with
your *seed after you,
10 and with every living creature which [is] with you, among fowl, among
cattle, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going out
of the ark--to every beast of the earth. 11 And I have established My covenant
with you, and all flesh is not any more cut off by waters of a deluge, and
there is not any more a deluge to destroy the earth.' 12 And God saith, `This is a token of the covenant which I am giving
between Me and you, and every living creature that [is] with you, to generations
age-during; 13 My bow I have given in the cloud, and it hath been for a token
of a covenant between Me and the earth; 14 and it hath come to pass (in My
sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath been seen in the cloud, 15
and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living
creature among all flesh, and the waters become no more a deluge to destroy all
flesh; 16 and the bow hath been in the cloud, and I have seen it--to remember
the covenant age-during between God and every living creature among all flesh
which [is] on the earth.' 17 And God saith unto Noah,
`This [is] a token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all
flesh that [is] upon the earth.' 18 And the sons of Noah who are going out of
the ark are *Shem,
and *Ham, and *Japheth; and
Ham is father of *Canaan.
19 These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these hath all the earth been
overspread. 20 And Noah remaineth a man of the
ground, and planteth a vineyard, 21 and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent. 22 And Ham,
father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father,
and declareth to his two brethren without. 23 And
Shem taketh--Japheth also--the garment, and they place on the shoulder of them
both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their father; and their faces
[are] backward, and their father's nakedness they have not seen. 24 And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth
that which his young son hath done to him, 25 and saith:
`Cursed [is] Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.' 26 And he saith: `*Blessed
of Jehovah my God [is] Shem, And Canaan is servant to him. 27 God doth give
beauty to Japheth, And he dwelleth in tents of Shem,
And Canaan is servant to *him.' 28
And Noah liveth after the deluge three hundred and
fifty years; 29 and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and
he dieth.