1GOD BLESSED NOAH and his sons and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase and fill the earth. 2The fear and dread of you shall fall upon all wild animals on earth, on all birds of heaven, on everything that moves upon the ground and all fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. 3Every creature that lives and moves shall be food for you; I give you them all, as once I gave you all green plants. 4But you must not eat the flesh with the life, which is the blood, still in it. 5And further, for your life-blood I will demand satisfaction; from every animal I will require it, and from a man also I will require satisfaction for the death of his fellow-man.
8God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him: 9'I now make my covenant with you and with your descendants after you, 10and with every living creature that is with you, all birds and cattle, all the wild animals with you on earth, all that have come out of the ark. 11I will make my covenant with you: never again shall all living creatures be destroyed by the waters of the flood, never again shall there be a flood to lay waste the earth.'
12God said, 'This is the sign of the covenant which I establish between myself and you and every living creature with you, to endless generations:
15Then will I remember the covenant which I have made between myself and you and living things of every kind. Never again shall the waters become a flood to destroy all living creatures. 16The bow shall be in the cloud; when I see it, it will remind me of the everlasting covenant between God and living things on earth of every kind.' 17God said to Noah, 'This is the sign of the covenant which I make between myself and all that lives on earth.'
18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth; Ham was the father of Canaan. 19These three were the sons of Noah, and their descendants spread over the whole earth.
20Noah, a man of the soil, began the planting of vineyards. 21He drank some of the wine, became drunk and lay naked inside his tent. 22When Ham, father of Canaan, saw his father naked, he told his two brothers outside. 23So Shem and Japheth took a cloak, put it on their shoulders and walked backwards, and so covered their father's naked body; their faces were turned the other way, so that they did not see their father naked. 24When Noah woke from his drunken sleep, he learnt what his youngest son had done to him, 25and said:
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