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Genesis 9

¹God blessed Noah and his sons and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.

²All the animals, birds, and fish will live in fear of you. They are all placed under your power.

³Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food.

⁴The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood.

⁵If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life.

⁶Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.

⁷"You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth."

⁸God said to Noah and his sons,

⁹"I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants,

¹⁰and with all living beings---all birds and all animals---everything that came out of the boat with you.

¹¹With these words I make my covenant with you: I promise that never again will all living beings be destroyed by a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.

¹²As a sign of this everlasting covenant which I am making with you and with all living beings,

¹³I am putting my bow in the clouds. It will be the sign of my covenant with the world.

¹⁴Whenever I cover the sky with clouds and the rainbow appears,

¹⁵I will remember my promise to you and to all the animals that a flood will never again destroy all living beings.

¹⁶When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between me and all living beings on earth.

¹⁷That is the sign of the promise which I am making to all living beings."

¹⁸The sons of Noah who went out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

¹⁹These three sons of Noah were the ancestors of all the people on earth.

²⁰Noah, who was a farmer, was the first man to plant a vineyard.

²¹After he drank some of the wine, he became drunk, took off his clothes, and lay naked in his tent.

²²When Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked, he went out and told his two brothers.

²³Then Shem and Japheth took a robe and held it behind them on their shoulders. They walked backward into the tent and covered their father, keeping their faces turned away so as not to see him naked.

²⁴When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

²⁵he said, "A curse on Canaan! He will be a slave to his brothers.

²⁶Give praise to the LORD, the God of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Shem.

²⁷May God cause Japheth to increase! May his descendants live with the people of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Japheth."

²⁸After the flood Noah lived 350 years

²⁹and died at the age of 950.