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And Elohim blessed Noach and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
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And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every living creature of the earth, and upon every flying creature of the heavens, upon everything that moves upon the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are given.
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Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you all these.
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Only flesh with its life—its blood—you shall not eat.
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And surely for your lifeblood I will require an accounting. From every living creature I will require it, and from Adam. From the hand of each man I will require the life of his brother.
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Whoever sheds the blood of Adam, by Adam shall his blood be shed; for in the image of Elohim He made Adam.
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And you, be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly upon the earth and multiply within it.”
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And Elohim spoke to Noach and to his sons with him, saying,
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“And I—see—I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
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and with every living being that is with you: the flying creatures, the livestock, and every living creature of the earth with you, from all who came out of the ark to every living creature of the earth.
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And I establish My covenant with you: never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to bring ruin upon the earth.”
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And Elohim said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I set between Me and you and every living being that is with you, for perpetual generations:
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I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
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And it shall be, when I bring clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the cloud,
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that I will remember My covenant that is between Me and you and every living being of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to bring ruin upon all flesh.
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And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will see it and remember the perpetual covenant between Elohim and every living being of all flesh that is upon the earth.”
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And Elohim said to Noach, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”
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And the sons of Noach who went out from the ark were Shem, Cham, and Yafet. And Cham was the father of Kena’an.
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These three were the sons of Noach, and from these the whole earth spread abroad.
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And Noach began as a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard.
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And he drank from the wine and became drunk, and he uncovered himself within his tent.
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And Cham, the father of Kena’an, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.
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And Shem and Yafet took a garment, placed it upon both their shoulders, and walked backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see the nakedness of their father.
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And Noach awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done to him.
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And he said: “Cursed is Kena’an; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
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And he said: “Blessed is Yahuah, the Elohim of Shem; and let Kena’an be servant to him.
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May Elohim enlarge Yafet, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Kena’an be servant to him.”
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And Noach lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
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And all the days of Noach were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.