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Genesis 9

Covenant of the Rainbow

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And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, " aBe 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  1sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.

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"Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you,  aas I gave the green plant.

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

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"Surely I will require  1 ayour lifeblood;  2 bfrom every beast I will require it. And  2from every man,  2from every man's brother I will require the life of man.

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aWhoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For  bin the image of God He made man.

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"As for you,  abe fruitful and multiply;  1Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."

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

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"Now behold,  aI Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your  1descendants 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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"I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall  anever again be cut off by the water of the flood,  bneither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth."

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God said, "This is  athe sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for  1all successive generations;

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I set My  abow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a 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  aI will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and  bnever again shall the water 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  aeverlasting covenant between God and every living creature of 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 on the earth."

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Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and  aHam was the father of Canaan.

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These three were the sons of Noah, and  afrom these the whole earth was  1populated.

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Then Noah began  1farming and planted a vineyard.

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

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Ham, the father of Canaan,  asaw 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 upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were  1turned away, so that they did not see 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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So he said, " aCursed be Canaan;  1 bA servant of servants He shall be to his brothers."

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He also said, " aBlessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be  1his servant.

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aMay God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be  1his servant."

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Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

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



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