Genesis 9
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And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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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.
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Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
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But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
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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.
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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
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And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
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And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
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And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
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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.
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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.
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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:
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I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
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And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over 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 creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
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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.
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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.
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And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
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These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
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And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
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And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
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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.
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And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
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And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
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And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
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God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
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And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
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And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
Arcana Coelestia #1894
1894. That 'Sarai' is truth allied to good has been stated and shown already in 1468 and elsewhere; and that 'Abram' is the Lord's Internal Man, which is Jehovah, has likewise been stated and shown. The reason why the Lord's Internal Man, which is Jehovah, is called Man is that nobody is Man except Jehovah alone, for in its genuine sense Man means that Being (Esse) from which man derives his being. Being (Esse) itself - from which man derives his being - is Divine, and is consequently celestial and spiritual. Without that Divine celestial and spiritual there is nothing truly human in man, only something animal-like such as exists in beasts. It is by virtue of Jehovah's or the Lord's Being (Esse) that every man is 'man', and by virtue also of His Being that he is called 'man'. The celestial which makes him man consists in his love of the Lord and his love of the neighbour; and so he is man because he is an image of the Lord and because he has that celestial character from the Lord. Otherwise he is a wild beast.
[2] As regards Jehovah or the Lord being the only Man and that it is by virtue of Him that men are called 'men', also that one is more so man than another, see 49, 288, 477, 565. This matter becomes additionally clear from the fact that Jehovah or the Lord manifested Himself as Man to the patriarchs of the Most Ancient Church, subsequently to Abraham as well, and also to the prophets. This too was why the Lord was pleased, when no man remained on earth any more, that is, when nothing celestial or spiritual was left to mankind any more, to take on human nature by being born as any other, and to make that human nature Divine. In this respect also He is the only Man. In addition to this the whole of heaven presents before the Lord the image of a human being, because it is a presentation of Himself, and as a consequence heaven is called the Grand Man, chiefly from the fact that in heaven the Lord is the All in all.
