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   Genesis 9 New International Version (NIV)   
   God’s Covenant With Noah   
   9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and   
   increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall   
   on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every   
   creature that moves along the    
   ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. 3   
   Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you   
   the green plants, I now give you everything.   
      
   4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5 And for   
   your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting   
   from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting   
   for the life of    
   another human being.   
      
   6 “Whoever sheds human blood,   
       by humans shall their blood be shed;   
   for in the image of God   
       has God made mankind.   
      
   7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and   
   increase upon it.”   
      
   8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my   
   covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living   
   creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild   
   animals, all those that came    
   out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my   
   covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a   
   flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”   
      
   12 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: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the   
   covenant between me and    
   the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears   
   in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all   
   living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to   
   destroy all life. 16    
   Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the   
   everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the   
   earth.”   
      
   17 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established   
   between me and all life on the earth.”   
      
   The Sons of Noah   
   18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham   
   was the father of Canaan.) 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them   
   came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.   
      
   20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded[a] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank   
   some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham,   
   the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.   
   23 But Shem and    
   Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in   
   backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the   
   other way so that they would not see their father naked.   
      
   24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done   
   to him, 25 he said,   
      
   “Cursed be Canaan!   
       The lowest of slaves   
       will he be to his brothers.”   
      
   26 He also said,   
      
   “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!   
       May Canaan be the slave of Shem.   
   27 May God extend Japheth’s[b] territory;   
       may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,   
       and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”   
      
   28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 Noah lived a total of 950 years,   
   and then he died.   
      
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