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9:1  God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
9:2  Fear and dread of you will come upon every wild animal and every bird of the air, everything that crawls upon the earth and all the fish of the sea; they will be under your dominion.
9:3  “Whatever moves and has life will be used for your food. I give you all these things, just as I have already given you every green plant.
9:4  Only do not eat flesh along with its life, that is, with its blood.
9:5  For your blood, that is, your life, I will require an accounting. I will require it of every living creature, and I will require it of every human in regard to other humans, each person for his brother.
9:6  “Whoever spills human blood, that person’s blood will be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.
9:7  And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; become numerous upon the earth and have dominion over it.”
9:8  God said to Noah and his sons,
9:9  “As for me, I will establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you,
9:10  with every living creature along with you—the birds, tame and wild animals, and with all the animals which left the ark.
9:11  I will establish my covenant with you: never again will all living creatures be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor will the earth be laid waste by a flood again.”
9:12  God said, “This will be a sign of the covenant that I establish between me and you and every living creature for all generations.
9:13  I will place my rainbow in the clouds and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
9:14  When I gather the clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds.
9:15  I will remember my covenant between me and you and with every living creature of every kind, that water and flood shall never again destroy all flesh.
9:16  The rainbow will be in the clouds and I will look upon it and remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is found upon the earth.”
9:17  God said to Noah, “This is a sign of the covenant that I am establishing between myself and every creature upon the earth.”
9:18  The sons of Noah who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of the people of Canaan.
9:19  These were the three sons of Noah, and from these came all the people on the earth.
9:20  Now Noah tilled the soil, and he was the first to plant grape vines.
9:21  He drank some of the wine and he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
9:22  Ham, the father of the Canaanites, saw his father lying naked, and he mentioned it to his two brothers who were standing outside.
9:23  Shem and Japheth took a robe and, holding it in back of them, walked backward toward him and covered their father with it. Having faced backward, they did not see their father naked.
9:24  When Noah woke up from his drunken slumber, he learned what his youngest son had done to him.
9:25  Because of this, he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers!”
9:26  And he continued, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, and let Canaan be his slave!
9:27  May God enlarge Japheth so that he dwells in the land of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave!”
9:28  After the flood, Noah lived for three hundred and fifty years.
9:29  In all, Noah lived for nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.