(KJV) Genesis 9¹

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⥃The Covenant of the Rainbow

[1] And God blessed² Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be³ fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. [2] And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.⁴ [3] Every⁵ moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even⁶ as the green herb have I given you all things. [4] But flesh with the life⁷ thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. [5] And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every⁸ beast will I require it, and at⁹ the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother¹⁰ will I require the life of man. [6] Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by¹¹ man shall his blood be shed: for in¹² the image of God made he man. [7] And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.¹³

[8] And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, [9] And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;¹⁴ [10] And with every living creature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.¹⁵ [11] And I¹⁶ will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all¹⁷ flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. [12] And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations:¹⁸ [13] I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.¹⁹ [14] And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: [15] And I will remember²⁰ my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters²¹ shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. [16] And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting²² covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth. [17] And God said unto Noah, This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.

⥃Noah’s Shame and Canaan’s Curse

[18] And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem²³, and Ham²⁴, and Japheth: and Ham [is] the father of Canaan²⁵. [19] These²⁶ [are] the three sons of Noah: and of²⁷ them was the whole earth overspread. [20] And Noah began [to be] an husbandman²⁸, and he planted²⁹ a vineyard: [21] And he drank of the wine, and was³⁰ drunken; and he³¹ was uncovered within his tent. [22] And Ham³², the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told³³ his two brethren without. [23] And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.³⁴ [24] And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. [25] And he said, Cursed³⁵ [be] Canaan; a servant³⁶ of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

⥃Shem’s Blessing and Noah’s Death

[26] And he said, Blessed³⁷ [be] the Lord³⁸ God of Shem³⁹; and Canaan shall be his servant⁴⁰. [27] God shall enlarge⁴¹ Japheth⁴², and he shall dwell⁴³⁴⁴ in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

[28] And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. [29] And all the days of Noah were nine⁴⁵ hundred and fifty years: and he died. ⁴⁶

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