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Chapter 9 |
| 1 | And God
blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth. |
| 2 | And the fear of you and the dread of you
shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon
all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your
hand are they delivered. |
| 3 | Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat
for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. |
| 4 | But
flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not
eat. |
| 5 |
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the
hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of
every man's brother will I require the life of man. |
| 6 | Whoso sheddeth
man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he
man. |
| 7 |
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly
in the earth, and multiply therein. |
| 8 | And God spake unto Noah, and to
his sons with him, saying, |
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9 | And I, behold, I establish my covenant
with you, and with your seed after you; |
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10 | And with every living
creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of
the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the
earth. |
| 11
| And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall
all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any
more be a flood to destroy the earth. |
| 12 | And God said, This is the
token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature
that is with you, for perpetual generations: |
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13 | I do set my bow in the
cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the
earth. |
| 14
| And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: |
| 15 | And I will
remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of
all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all
flesh. |
| 16
| And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon
it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living
creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. |
| 17 | And God said
unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between
me and all flesh that is upon the earth. |
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18 | And the sons of Noah, that
went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father
of Canaan. |
| 19
| These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the
whole earth overspread. |
| 20 | And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he
planted a vineyard: |
| 21 | And he drank of the wine, and was drunken;
and he was uncovered within his tent. |
| 22 | And Ham, the father of
Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren
without. |
| 23
| And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon
both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their
father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's
nakedness. |
| 24
| And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger
son had done unto him. |
| 25 | And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of
servants shall he be unto his brethren. |
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26 | And he said, Blessed be
the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. |
| 27 | God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant. |
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28 | And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and
fifty years. |
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29 | And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and
fifty years: and he died. |
