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And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase and multiply , and fill the earth .
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And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth , and upon all the fowls of the air , and all that move upon the earth : all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand .
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And every thing that moveth and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:
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Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat .
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For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man , at the hand of every man , and of his brother , will I require the life of man .
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Whosoever shall shed man's blood , his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God .
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But increase you and multiply , and go upon the earth , and fill it.
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This also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him,
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Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:
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And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds as in cattle and beasts of the earth , that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth .
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I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth .
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And God said : This is the sign of the covenant which I will give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations .
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I will set my bow in the clouds , and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me, and between the earth .
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And when I shall cover the sky with clouds , my bow shall appear in the clouds :
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And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh : and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh .
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And the bow shall be in the clouds , and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth .
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And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh upon the earth .
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And the sons of Noe who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth : and Cham is the father of Chanaan.
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These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth .
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And Noe, a husbandman , began to till the ground , and planted a vineyard .
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And drinking of the wine was made drunk , and was uncovered in his tent .
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Which when Cham the father of Chaanan had seen , to wit, that his father 's nakedness was uncovered , he told it to his two brethren without.
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But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father : and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father 's nakedness .
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And Noe awaking from the wine , when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,
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He said : Cursed be Chaanan, a servant of servants , shall he be unto his brethren .
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And he said : Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant .
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May God enlarge Japheth , and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant .
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And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years:
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And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died .