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Genesis
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English: New American Standard Bible |
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Genesis 9 [Commentary] 
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And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. |
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"The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. |
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"Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant. |
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"Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. |
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"Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man's brother I will require the life of man. |
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"Whoever sheds man's blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.
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"As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."
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Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, |
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"Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; |
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and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. |
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"I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth." |
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God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; |
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I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. |
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"It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, |
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and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. |
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"When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." |
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And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth." |
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Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan. |
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These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. |
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Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard. |
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He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. |
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Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. |
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But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father's nakedness. |
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When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him. |
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So he said, "Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers."
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He also said, "Blessed be the LORD,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
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"May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant."
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Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. |
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So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died. |
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