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9:1  God blessed Noah and his sons and told them to have many children and to repopulate the earth.
9:2  “All wild animals and birds and fish will be afraid of you,” God told him; “for I have placed them in your power, and they are yours to use for food, in addition to grain and vegetables.
9:3  “All wild animals and birds and fish will be afraid of you,” God told him; “for I have placed them in your power, and they are yours to use for food, in addition to grain and vegetables.
9:4  But never eat animals unless their life-blood has been drained off.
9:5  And murder is forbidden. Man-killing animals must die, and any man who murders shall be killed; for to kill a man is to kill one made like God.
9:6  And murder is forbidden. Man-killing animals must die, and any man who murders shall be killed; for to kill a man is to kill one made like God.
9:7  Yes, have many children and repopulate the earth and subdue it.”
9:8  Then God told Noah and his sons,
9:9  “I solemnly promise you and your children and the animals you brought with you—all these birds and cattle and wild animals—that I will never again send another flood to destroy the earth.
9:10  “I solemnly promise you and your children and the animals you brought with you—all these birds and cattle and wild animals—that I will never again send another flood to destroy the earth.
9:11  “I solemnly promise you and your children and the animals you brought with you—all these birds and cattle and wild animals—that I will never again send another flood to destroy the earth.
9:12  And I seal this promise with this sign:
9:13  I have placed my rainbow in the clouds as a sign of my promise until the end of time, to you and to all the earth.
9:14  When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will be seen in the clouds,
9:15  and I will remember my promise to you and to every being, that never again will the floods come and destroy all life.
9:16  For I will see the rainbow in the cloud and remember my eternal promise to every living being on the earth.”
9:17  For I will see the rainbow in the cloud and remember my eternal promise to every living being on the earth.”
9:18  The names of Noah’s three sons were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the ancestor of the Canaanites.)
9:19  From these three sons of Noah came all the nations of the earth.
9:20  Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard, and he made wine. One day as he was drunk and lay naked in his tent,
9:21  Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard, and he made wine. One day as he was drunk and lay naked in his tent,
9:22  Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and went outside and told his two brothers.
9:23  Then Shem and Japheth took a robe and held it over their shoulders and, walking backwards into the tent, let it fall across their father to cover his nakedness as they looked the other way.
9:24  When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor, and learned what had happened and what Ham, his younger son, had done, he cursed Ham’s descendants: “A curse upon the Canaanites,” he swore. “May they be the lowest of slaves To the descendants of Shem and Japheth.”
9:25  When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor, and learned what had happened and what Ham, his younger son, had done, he cursed Ham’s descendants: “A curse upon the Canaanites,” he swore. “May they be the lowest of slaves To the descendants of Shem and Japheth.”
9:26  Then he said, “God bless Shem, And may Canaan be his slave. God bless Japheth, And let him share the prosperity of Shem, And let Canaan be his slave.”
9:27  Then he said, “God bless Shem, And may Canaan be his slave. God bless Japheth, And let him share the prosperity of Shem, And let Canaan be his slave.”
9:28  Noah lived another 350 years after the flood
9:29  and was 950 years old at his death.