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And God blessed Noaḥ and his sons, and said to them, Be··fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.
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And let the fear of you and the terror* of you be on every animal of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens; to everything that the ground makes to creep forth, and to all the fish of the sea, into your hand let them be given.
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Every creeping thing that lives shall be for you for food; as the green◦ herb have I given it all to you.
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Only▵ the flesh with its soul, its blood, you shall not eat.
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And surely your blood I will require of your souls; from the hand of every wild··animal I will require it; and from the hand of man, from the hand of a man◦ his brother, I will require the soul of man.
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Whoever sheds man’s blood in man*, his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God made He man.
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And you◦, be· ye ·fruitful, and multiply; crawl forth on◦ the earth, and multiply in it.
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And God said to▵ Noaḥ, and to▵ his sons with◦ him, saying,
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And I◦, behold, I raise··up My covenant with◦ you, and with◦ your seed after you;
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and with◦ every living soul that is with◦ you, even to the fowl, to the beast, and to every wild··animal of the land with◦ you; of all that go··out of the ark◦, as··to every wild··animal of the land.
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And I will raise··up my covenant with◦ you; neither shall all flesh be cut··off any··more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there be any··more a flood to destroy the earth.
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And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I◦ give between Me and you and every living soul that is with◦ you, for the generations of an age;
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I have put◦ My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
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And it shall be, in clouding Myself with a cloud on the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,
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and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living soul among◦ all flesh; and the waters shall no◦ more◦ be for a flood to destroy all flesh.
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And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will see it, to remember the eternal covenant between God and every living soul among◦ all flesh that is upon the earth.
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And God said to▵ Noaḥ, This is the sign of the covenant which I have raised··up between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.
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And the sons of Noaḥ, who went··out from the ark◦, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham, he◦ is the father of Canaan.
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These three were the sons of Noaḥ; and from these was scattered all the earth.
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And Noaḥ began to be a man◦ of the ground, and he planted a vineyard;
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and he drank from the wine and was··drunken; and he was uncovered in the midst of his tent.
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
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And Shem and Japheth took the raiment, and set it upon the shoulders of the two of them, and walked◦ backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.
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And Noaḥ awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger◦ son had done to him.
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And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.
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And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; and Canaan shall be a servant to him.
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May God enlarge◦ Japheth, and he shall reside in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be a servant to him.
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And Noaḥ lived after the flood three hundred years and fifty years.
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And all the days of Noaḥ were nine hundred years and fifty years; and he died.
