The Noahic Covenant
1. And God blessed Noah and his sons,
and said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
2. And the fear of you and the dread of you
shall be upon every beast of the earth,
and upon every bird of the heavens,
upon all that creeps on the ground,
and upon all the fish of the sea;
into your hand they are given.
3. Every moving thing that lives shall be for you for food;
as the green plant I have given you all.
4. But flesh with its life—its blood—you shall not eat.
5. And surely your blood of your lives I will require;
from every beast I will require it,
and from the hand of man,
from the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
6. Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed;
for in the image of God He made man.
7. And you, be fruitful and multiply;
swarm on the earth and multiply in it.”
The Covenant of the Rainbow
8. And God spoke to 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—
the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you—
of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.
11. And I establish My covenant with you:
never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood,
and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12. And God said,
“This is the sign of the covenant which I give between Me and you
and every living creature that is with you,
for generations everlasting:
13. My bow I have set in the cloud,
and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
14. And it shall come to pass,
when I bring a cloud over the earth,
and the bow is seen in the cloud,
15. that I will remember My covenant
which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh;
and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16. And the bow shall be in the cloud,
and I will look upon it,
to remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”
17. And God said to Noah,
“This is the sign of the covenant
which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”
The Sons of Noah
18. And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth;
and Ham was the father of Canaan.
19. These three were the sons of Noah,
and from them was the whole earth spread abroad.
Noah’s Sin
20. And Noah began to be a man of the ground,
and he planted a vineyard.
21. And he drank of the wine and became drunk,
and he uncovered himself inside his tent.
22. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father
and told his two brothers outside.
23. And 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 backward,
and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Noah’s Prophecy
24. And Noah awoke from his wine,
and knew what his younger son had done to him.
25. And he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;
a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
26. And he said,
“Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem;
and let Canaan be servant to them.
27. May God enlarge Japheth,
and let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
and let Canaan be servant to them.”
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.
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