1.God blessed Noah and his sons and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth. 2.All the animals, birds, and fish will live in fear of you.They are all placed under your power. 3.Now you can it them, as well as green plants; I give them all you for food. 4.The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood. 5.If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life. 6.Man was made like God, so whoever muders a man will himself be killed by his fellowman. 7."You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth." 8.God said to Noah and his sons, 9."I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants, 10.and with all living beings- all birds and all animals- everything that came out of the boat with you. 11.With 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. 12.As a sign of this everlasting covenant which I am making with you and with all living beings, 13.I am putting my bow in the clouds. It wll be the sign of my covenant with the world. 14.Whenever I cover the sky with clouds and the rainbow appears, 15.I will remember my promise to you and to all the animals that a flood will never again destroy all living beings. 16.When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I wil see it and remember the everlasting covenant between me and all living being on earth. 17.That is the sign of the promise which I am making to all living beings." 18.The sons of Noah who went out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Cannan.) 19.These three sons of Noah were the ancestors of all the people on earth. 20.Noah, who was a farmer, was the first man to plant a vineyard. 21.After he drank some of the wine, he became drunk, took off his clothes, and lay naked in his tent. 22.When Ham, the father of Cannan, saw that his father was naked, he went out and told his two brothers. 23.Then 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. 24.When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him, 25.he said, "A curse on Cannan! He will be a slave to his brothers. 26.Give praise to the Lord, the God of Shem! Cannan will be the salve of Shem. 27.May God cause Japheth to increase! May his descendants live with the people of Shem! Cannan will be the slave of Jepheth." 28.After the flood Noah lived 350 years and died at the age of 950.
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