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Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
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But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
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And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
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Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
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But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
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Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
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“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
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and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.
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And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
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And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
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I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
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Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
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I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
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And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”
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So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
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The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
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These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
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Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
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But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
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Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
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When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
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he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
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He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
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May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
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After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.
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So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.