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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1God blessed Noah and his sons and ordered them, "Be productive, multiply, and fill the earth. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2All the living creatures of the earth will be filled with fear and terror of you from now on, including all the creatures that fly in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the ocean. They've been assigned to live under your dominion. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Every living, moving creature will be food for you. Just as I gave you green plants before, so now you have everything. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4However, you are not to eat meat with its life—that is, its blood—in it! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Also, I will certainly demand an accounting regarding bloodshed, from every animal and from every human being. I'll demand an accounting from every human being for the life of another human being. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his own blood is to be shed; because God made human beings in his own image. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now as for you, be productive and multiply; spread out over the land and multiply throughout it." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Later, God told Noah and his sons, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Pay attention! I'm establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants after you, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and with every living creature that is with you—the flying creatures, the livestock, and all the wildlife of the earth that are with you—all the earth's animals that came out of the ark. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I will establish my covenant with you: No living beings will ever be cut off again by flood waters, and there will never again be a flood that destroys the earth." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12God also said, "Here's the symbol that represents the covenant that I'm making between me and you and every living being with you, for all future generations: |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I've set my rainbow in the sky to symbolize the covenant between me and the earth. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow becomes visible in the clouds, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I'll remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature, so that water will never again become a flood to destroy all living beings. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will observe it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living beings on the earth." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17God also told Noah, "This is the symbol of the covenant that I've established between me and everything that lives on the earth." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Noah's sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham later fathered Canaan.) |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19These three were Noah's sons, and from these men the whole earth was repopulated. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant and farm a vineyard. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He drank some of the wine, got drunk, and lay down naked right in the middle of his tent. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Ham, who fathered Canaan, saw his father's genitals and told his two brothers outside. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Then Shem and Japheth took their father's cloak, laid it across both their shoulders, and walking backwards, they both covered their father's genitals. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's genitals. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25he said, "Canaan is cursed! He will be the lowest of slaves to his relatives." |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26He also said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27May God make room for Japheth; may God live in Shem's tents, and may Canaan serve him." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Noah lived 350 years after the flood. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29After Noah had lived a total of 950 years, he died. |
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