| 9 | Genesis | Passage |
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God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, 'Breed, multiply and fill the earth. |
God's covenant with Noah. Gn.9.1-17
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Be the terror and the dread of all the animals on land and all the birds of heaven, of everything that moves on land and all the fish of the sea; they are placed in your hands. |
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Every living thing that moves will be yours to eat, no less than the foliage of the plants. I give you everything, |
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with this exception: you must not eat flesh with life, that is to say blood, in it. |
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And I shall demand account of your life-blood, too. I shall demand it of every animal, and of man. Of man as regards his fellow-man, I shall demand account for human life. |
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He who sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
for in the image of God
was man created.
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Be fruitful then and multiply,
teem over the earth and subdue it!' |
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| 8 |
God spoke as follows to Noah and his sons, |
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| 9 |
'I am now establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants to come, |
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| 10 |
and with every living creature that was with you: birds, cattle and every wild animal with you; everything that came out of the ark, every living thing on earth. |
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| 11 |
And I shall maintain my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the earth.' |
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| 12 |
'And this', God said, 'is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: |
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| 13 |
I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. |
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| 14 |
When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, |
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| 15 |
I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things. |
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When the bow is in the clouds I shall see it and call to mind the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth, that is, all living things.' |
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| 17 |
'That', God told Noah, 'is the sign of the covenant I have established between myself and all living things on earth.' |
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| 18 |
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth-Ham being the father of Canaan. |
Noah and his sons. Gn.9.18-29
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These three were Noah's sons, and from these the whole earth was peopled. |
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| 20 |
Noah, a tiller of the soil, was the first to plant the vine. |
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| 21 |
He drank some of the wine, and while he was drunk, he lay uncovered in his tent. |
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Ham, father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. |
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Shem and Japheth took a cloak and they both put it over their shoulders, and walking backwards, covered their father's nakedness; they kept their faces turned away, and they did not look at their father naked. |
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When Noah awoke from his stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him, |
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and said: Accursed be Canaan,
he shall be his brothers' meanest slave. |
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| 26 |
He added: Blessed be Yahweh, God of Shem,
let Canaan be his slave!
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| 27 |
May God make space for Japheth,
may he live in the tents of Shem,
and let Canaan be his slave! |
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| 28 |
After the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty years. |
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| 29 |
In all, Noah's life lasted nine hundred and fifty years; then he died. |
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