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title: Genesis 9
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createdAt: 2024-07-17T03:38:39.051Z
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**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, **9 **And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; **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: **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.

**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.

**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.

**28 **And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. **29 **And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.