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blessed Noah and his sons and said, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will be in all the animals of the earth, on every bird of the air, on every creature that crawls along the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
4 “However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it. 5 And I will demand an accounting for your own lifeblood. I will require it from every animal, and from the hand of man. And from each man, also, I will require an accounting for the life of his fellow man.
6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man,
his blood will be shed by man,
for God made man
in His own image.
7 As for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “As for Me, behold, I now establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals of the earth that are with you—all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark. 11 I establish My covenant with you: never again will all flesh be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all future generations: 13 I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh: water will never again become a flood to destroy all life. 16 When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will look on it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all kinds on earth.”
17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between Me and every creature on 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 were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was repopulated.
20 Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of the wine, he became drunk, and he lay uncovered in his tent. 22 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, and they laid it across their shoulders and they walked in backward and covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so they would not see their father’s nakedness.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine, he found out what his youngest son had done to him.
25 So he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;
He will be the lowest of slaves
to his brothers.”
26 He also said,
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
27 May God enlarge the territory of Japheth;
may he dwell in the tents of Shem;
and may Canaan be his slave.”
28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 Altogether, Noah lived for 950 years; then he died.