book of Genesis ( NKJV
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9:1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said
to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2
"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.
3 "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given
you all things, even as the green herbs. 4 "But you
shall not eat flesh with its life, [that is,] its blood. 5
"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. 6
"Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in
the image of God He made man. 7 And as for you, be fruitful
and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it."
8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:
9 "And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with
your descendants after you, 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 go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.
11 "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." 12 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:
13 "I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign
of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 "It shall
be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen
in the cloud; 15 "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. 16
"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." 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." 18 Now the sons of Noah
who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham [was] the
father of Canaan. 19 These three [were] the sons of
Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. 20 And
Noah began [to be] a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. 21
Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his
tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness
of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23 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]
turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
24 So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had
done to him. 25 Then he said: "Cursed [be] Canaan; A
servant of servants He shall be to his brethren." 26 And
he said: "Blessed [be] the LORD, The God of Shem, And may Canaan be his
servant. 27 May God enlarge Japheth, And may he dwell
in the tents of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant." 28
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and
he died. |