Genesis 9

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1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 Let all the beasts of the earth be afraid and tremble to you, and all the birds of the air, everything that moves on the earth, and all the fish of the sea: they are given into your hands;
3 Everything moving that lives will be your food; As a green herb I give you everything;
4 Only flesh with her soul, with her blood, do not eat;
5 I will also require your blood, in which you will live, I will seek it from every beast, I will also seek the soul of man from the hand of man, from the hand of his brother;
6th Who sheds the blood of man, the blood will be shed by the hand of man: for man is created in the image of God;
7th You are fruitful and multiply, and spread throughout the earth, and multiply on it.

8 And God spake unto Noah and to his sons with him:
9 Behold, I make my covenant with you and with your posterity after you,
10 And with every living creature that is with you, with birds and cattle, and with all the beasts of the earth, which are with you, with all that come out of the ark, with all the animals of the earth;
eleven I make my covenant with you that all flesh will not be destroyed any more by the waters of the flood, and there will no longer be a flood for the devastation of the earth.

12 And God said: This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for generations forever:
13 I lay my rainbow in the cloud, that it might be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall be, when I bring a cloud to the earth, there shall be a rainbow in the cloud;
15 And I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature in all flesh; And there will no more be a flood of water for the destruction of all flesh.
16 And there shall be a rainbow in the cloud, and I will see it, and I will remember the everlasting covenant between God and between every living creature in all flesh that is on the earth.
17th And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant that I made between me and all flesh that is on the earth.

18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.
19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was inhabited.
20 Noah began to cultivate the land and planted a vineyard;
21 And he drank wine, and became intoxicated, and [lay] naked in his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and went out and told his two brothers.
23 And Shem and Japheth took the garment, and, putting it on their shoulders, went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father; Their faces were turned back, and they did not see the nakedness of their father.

24 Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his younger son had done to him,
25 And said: Cursed is Canaan; He will be a slave of slaves to his brothers.
26th Then he said: Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; Canaan will be his servant;
27th May God spread Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of the sims; Canaan will be his slave.

28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 All the days of Noah's were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

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