And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he
said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the
earth.
2 And let the fear and dread of you be upon
all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls
of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all
the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.
3 And every thing that moveth, and liveth
shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs
have I delivered them all to you:
4 Saving that flesh with blood you shall not
eat.
5 For I will require the blood of your lives at
the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man,
at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will
I require the life of man.
6 Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood
shall be shed: for man was made to the image of
God.
7 But increase you and multiply, and go upon
the earth and fill it.
8 Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons
with him:
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9 Behold I will establish my covenant with
you, and with your seed after you:
10 And with every living soul that is with you,
as well in all birds, as in cattle and beasts of the
earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in
all the beasts of the earth.
11 I will establish my covenant with you, and
all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth.
12 And God said: This is the sign of the
covenant which I give between me and you, and
to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.
13 I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall
be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth.
14 And when I shall cover the sky with clouds,
my bow shall appear in the clouds:
15 And I will remember my covenant with
you, and with every living soul that beareth
flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a
flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I
shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting
covenant, that was made between God and every
living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.
17 And God said to Noe: This shall be the
sign of the covenant, which I have established,
between me and all flesh upon the earth.
18 And the sons of Noe, who came out of the
ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham
is the father of Chanaan.
19 These three are the sons of Noe: and from
these was all mankind spread over the whole
earth.
20 And Noe a husbandman began to till the
ground, and planted a vineyard.
21 And drinking of the wine was made drunk,
and was uncovered in his tent.
22 Which when Cham the father of Chanaan
had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was
uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.
23 But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon
their shoulders, and going backward, covered the
nakedness of their father: and their faces were
turned away, and they saw not their father's
nakedness.
24 And Noe awaking from the wine, when he
had learned what his younger son had done to
him,
25 He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of
servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of
Sem, be Chanaan his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he
dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his
servant.
28 And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all his days were in the whole nine
hundred and fifty years: and he died.