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2GENESISCHAPTER 1Ge. 1:1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Ge. 1:2Now the earth was [Or possibly became] formless and empty,darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit ofGod was hovering over the waters.Ge. 1:3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.Ge. 1:4God saw that the light was good, and he separated the lightfrom the darkness.Ge. 1:5God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called“night”. And there was evening, and there was morning —the first day.Ge. 1:6And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the watersto separate water from water.”Ge. 1:7So God made the expanse and separated the water under theexpanse from the water above it. And it was so.Ge. 1:8God called the expanse “sky”. And there was evening, andthere was morning — the second day.Ge. 1:9And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered toone place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.Ge. 1:10God called the dry ground “land”, and the gathered waters hecalled “seas”. And God saw that it was good.Ge. 1:11Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seedbearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seedin it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.Ge. 1:12The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed accordingto their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it accordingto their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
3Ge. 1:13And there was evening, and there was morning — the thirdday.Ge. 1:14And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the skyto separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signsto mark seasons and days and years,Ge. 1:15and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give lighton the earth.” And it was so.Ge. 1:16God made two great lights — the greater light to govern theday and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made thestars.Ge. 1:17God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on theearth,Ge. 1:18to govern the day and the night, and to separate light fromdarkness. And God saw that it was good.Ge. 1:19And there was evening, and there was morning — the fourthday.Ge. 1:20And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, andlet birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”Ge. 1:21So God created the great creatures of the sea and every livingand moving thing with which the water teems, according totheir kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. AndGod saw that it was good.Ge. 1:22God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase innumber and fill the water in the seas, and let the birdsincrease on the earth.”Ge. 1:23And there was evening, and there was morning — the fifthday.Ge. 1:24And God said, “Let the land produce living creaturesaccording to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move alongthe ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.”And it was so.
4Ge. 1:25God made the wild animals according to their kinds, thelivestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures thatmove along the ground according to their kinds. And Godsaw that it was good.Ge. 1:26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in ourlikeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and thebirds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth,[Hebrew; Syriac all the wild animals] and over all thecreatures that move along the ground.”Ge. 1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of Godhe created him; male and female he created them.Ge. 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increasein number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish ofthe sea and the birds of the air and over every living creaturethat moves on the ground.”Ge. 1:29Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on theface of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seedin it. They will be yours for food.Ge. 1:30And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the airand all the creatures that move on the ground — everythingthat has the breath of life in it — I give every green plant forfood.” And it was so.Ge. 1:31God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. Andthere was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.CHAPTER 2Ge. 2:1Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all theirvast array.Ge. 2:2By the seventh day God had finished the work he had beendoing; so on the seventh day he rested [Or ceased; also inverse 3] from all his work.
5Ge. 2:3And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, becauseon it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.Ge. 2:4This is the account of the heavens and the earth when theywere created. When the LORD God made the earth and theheavens —Ge. 2:5and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth [Orland; also in verse 6] and no plant of the field had yet sprungup, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth [Orland; also in verse 6] and there was no man to work theground,Ge. 2:6but streams [Or mist] came up from the earth and wateredthe whole surface of the ground —Ge. 2:7the LORD God formed the man [The Hebrew for man(adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew forground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see Gen. 2:20).]from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils thebreath of life, and the man became a living being.Ge. 2:8Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, inEden; and there he put the man he had formed.Ge. 2:9And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of theground — trees that were pleasing to the eye and good forfood. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and thetree of the knowledge of good and evil.Ge. 2:10A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there itwas separated into four headwaters.Ge. 2:11The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through theentire land of Havilah, where there is gold.Ge. 2:12(The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin [Or good;pearls] and onyx are also there.)Ge. 2:13The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds throughthe entire land of Cush. [Possibly south-east Mesopotamia]Ge. 2:14The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the eastside of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
6Ge. 2:15The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden ofEden to work it and take care of it.Ge. 2:16And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free toeat from any tree in the garden;Ge. 2:17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of goodand evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”Ge. 2:18The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.I will make a helper suitable for him.”Ge. 2:19Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all thebeasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He broughtthem to the man to see what he would name them; andwhatever the man called each living creature, that was itsname.Ge. 2:20So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of theair and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam [Or the man]no suitable helper was found.Ge. 2:21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs [Ortook part of the man’s side] and closed up the place withflesh.Ge. 2:22Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib [Or part]he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.Ge. 2:23The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of myflesh; she shall be called ‘woman’, [The Hebrew for womansounds like the Hebrew for man.] for she was taken out ofman.”Ge. 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and beunited to his wife, and they will become one flesh.Ge. 2:25The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt noshame.
7CHAPTER 3Ge. 3:1Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wildanimals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman,“Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in thegarden’?”Ge. 3:2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from thetrees in the garden,Ge. 3:3but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that isin the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or youwill die.’”Ge. 3:4“You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman.Ge. 3:5“For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will beopened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”Ge. 3:6When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good forfood and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gainingwisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to herhusband, who was with her, and he ate it.Ge. 3:7Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realisedthat they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together andmade coverings for themselves.Ge. 3:8Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD Godas he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, andthey hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.Ge. 3:9But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”Ge. 3:10He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraidbecause I was naked; so I hid.”Ge. 3:11And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have youeaten from the tree from which I commanded you not toeat?”Ge. 3:12The man said, “The woman you put here with me — shegave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
8Ge. 3:13Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this youhave done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, andI ate.”Ge. 3:14So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you havedone this, “Cursed are you above all the livestock and all thewild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eatdust all the days of your life.Ge. 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, andbetween your offspring [Or seed] and hers; he will crush [Orstrike] your head, and you will strike his heel.”Ge. 3:16To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains inchildbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Yourdesire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”Ge. 3:17To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and atefrom the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must noteat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; throughpainful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.Ge. 3:18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eatthe plants of the field.Ge. 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until youreturn to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dustyou are and to dust you will return.”Ge. 3:20Adam [Or The man] named his wife Eve, [Eve probablymeans living.] because she would become the mother of allthe living.Ge. 3:21The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and hiswife and clothed them.Ge. 3:22And the LORD God said, “The man has now become likeone of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed toreach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat,and live for ever.”Ge. 3:23So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden towork the ground from which he had been taken.
9Ge. 3:24After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side [Orplaced in front] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and aflaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to thetree of life.CHAPTER 4Ge. 4:1Adam [Or The man] lay with his wife Eve, and she becamepregnant and gave birth to Cain. [Cain sounds like theHebrew for brought forth or acquired.] She said, “With thehelp of the LORD I have brought forth [Or have acquired] aman.”Ge. 4:2Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel keptflocks, and Cain worked the soil.Ge. 4:3In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of thesoil as an offering to the LORD.Ge. 4:4But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn ofhis flock. The LORD looked with favour on Abel and hisoffering,Ge. 4:5but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favour. SoCain was very angry, and his face was downcast.Ge. 4:6Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why isyour face downcast?Ge. 4:7If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if youdo not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; itdesires to have you, but you must master it.”Ge. 4:8Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to thefield.” [Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate andSyriac; Masoretic Text does not have “Let’s go out to thefield.”] And while they were in the field, Cain attacked hisbrother Abel and killed him.Ge. 4:9Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10Ge. 4:10The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Yourbrother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.Ge. 4:11Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground,which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood fromyour hand.Ge. 4:12When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its cropsfor you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”Ge. 4:13Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is more than I canbear.Ge. 4:14Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hiddenfrom your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth,and whoever finds me will kill me.”Ge. 4:15But the LORD said to him, “Not so; [Septuagint, Vulgateand Syriac; Hebrew Very well] if anyone kills Cain, he willsuffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the LORD put amark on Cain so that no-one who found him would kill him.Ge. 4:16So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in theland of Nod, [Nod means wandering (see verses 12 and 14).]east of Eden.Ge. 4:17Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gavebirth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named itafter his son Enoch.Ge. 4:18To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father ofMehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, andMethushael was the father of Lamech.Ge. 4:19Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the otherZillah.Ge. 4:20Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who livein tents and raise livestock.Ge. 4:21His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all whoplay the harp and flute.
11Ge. 4:22Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds oftools out of [Or who instructed all who work in] bronze andiron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.Ge. 4:23Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me;wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed [Or I will kill]a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.Ge. 4:24If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seventimes.”Ge. 4:25Adam lay with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son andnamed him Seth, [Seth probably means granted.] saying,“God has granted me another child in place of Abel, sinceCain killed him.”Ge. 4:26Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that timemen began to call on [Or to proclaim] the name of theLORD.CHAPTER 5Ge. 5:1This is the written account of Adam’s line. When Godcreated man, he made him in the likeness of God.Ge. 5:2He created them male and female and blessed them. Andwhen they were created, he called them “man”. [Hebrewadam]Ge. 5:3When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his ownlikeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.Ge. 5:4After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had othersons and daughters.Ge. 5:5Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.Ge. 5:6When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father [Fathermay mean ancestor; also in verses 7-26.] of Enosh.Ge. 5:7And after he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807years and had other sons and daughters.
12Ge. 5:8Altogether, Seth lived 912 years, and then he died.Ge. 5:9When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father ofKenan.Ge. 5:10And after he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815years and had other sons and daughters.Ge. 5:11Altogether, Enosh lived 905 years, and then he died.Ge. 5:12When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father ofMahalalel.Ge. 5:13And after he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840years and had other sons and daughters.Ge. 5:14Altogether, Kenan lived 910 years, and then he died.Ge. 5:15When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father ofJared.Ge. 5:16And after he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830years and had other sons and daughters.Ge. 5:17Altogether, Mahalalel lived 895 years, and then he died.Ge. 5:18When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father ofEnoch.Ge. 5:19And after he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800years and had other sons and daughters.Ge. 5:20Altogether, Jared lived 962 years, and then he died.Ge. 5:21When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father ofMethuselah.Ge. 5:22And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walkedwith God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.Ge. 5:23Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years.Ge. 5:24Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because Godtook him away.
13Ge. 5:25When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the fatherof Lamech.Ge. 5:26And after he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived782 years and had other sons and daughters.Ge. 5:27Altogether, Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.Ge. 5:28When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.Ge. 5:29He named him Noah [Noah sounds like the Hebrew forcomfort.] and said, “He will comfort us in the labour andpainful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD hascursed.”Ge. 5:30After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had othersons and daughters.Ge. 5:31Altogether, Lamech lived 777 years, and then he died.Ge. 5:32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem,Ham and Japheth.CHAPTER 6Ge. 6:1When men began to increase in number on the earth anddaughters were born to them,Ge. 6:2the sons of God saw that the daughters of men werebeautiful, and they married any of them they chose.Ge. 6:3Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with [OrMy spirit will not remain in] man for ever, for he is mortal;[Or corrupt] his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”Ge. 6:4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days — and alsoafterwards — when the sons of God went to the daughters ofmen and had children by them. They were the heroes of old,men of renown.Ge. 6:5The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earthhad become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of hisheart was only evil all the time.
14Ge. 6:6The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth,and his heart was filled with pain.Ge. 6:7So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I havecreated, from the face of the earth — men and animals, andcreatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air —for I am grieved that I have made them.”Ge. 6:8But Noah found favour in the eyes of the LORD.Ge. 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man,blameless among the people of his time, and he walked withGod.Ge. 6:10Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.Ge. 6:11Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full ofviolence.Ge. 6:12God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all thepeople on earth had corrupted their ways.Ge. 6:13So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people,for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I amsurely going to destroy both them and the earth.Ge. 6:14So make yourself an ark of cypress [The meaning of theHebrew for this word is uncertain.] wood; make rooms in itand coat it with pitch inside and out.Ge. 6:15This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long,75 feet wide and 45 feet high. [Hebrew 300 cubits long, 50cubits wide and 30 cubits high (about 140 metres long, 23metres wide and 13.5 metres high)]Ge. 6:16Make a roof for it and finish [Or Make an opening for lightby finishing] the ark to within 18 inches [Hebrew a cubit(about 0.5 metre)] of the top. Put a door in the side of the arkand make lower, middle and upper decks.Ge. 6:17I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy alllife under the heavens, every creature that has the breath oflife in it. Everything on earth will perish.
15Ge. 6:18But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enterthe ark — you and your sons and your wife and your sons’wives with you.Ge. 6:19You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, maleand female, to keep them alive with you.Ge. 6:20Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and ofevery kind of creature that moves along the ground will cometo you to be kept alive.Ge. 6:21You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten andstore it away as food for you and for them.”Ge. 6:22Noah did everything just as God commanded him.CHAPTER 7Ge. 7:1The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and yourwhole family, because I have found you righteous in thisgeneration.Ge. 7:2Take with you seven [Or seven pairs; also in verse 3] of everykind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of everykind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,Ge. 7:3and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keeptheir various kinds alive throughout the earth.Ge. 7:4Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for fortydays and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of theearth every living creature I have made.”Ge. 7:5And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.Ge. 7:6Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters cameon the earth.Ge. 7:7And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wivesentered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.Ge. 7:8Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of allcreatures that move along the ground,
16Ge. 7:9male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as Godhad commanded Noah.Ge. 7:10And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.Ge. 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenthday of the second month — on that day all the springs of thegreat deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavenswere opened.Ge. 7:12And rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.Ge. 7:13On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth,together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, enteredthe ark.Ge. 7:14They had with them every wild animal according to its kind,all livestock according to their kinds, every creature thatmoves along the ground according to its kind and every birdaccording to its kind, everything with wings.Ge. 7:15Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them cameto Noah and entered the ark.Ge. 7:16The animals going in were male and female of every livingthing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shuthim in.Ge. 7:17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as thewaters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.Ge. 7:18The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and theark floated on the surface of the water.Ge. 7:19They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountainsunder the entire heavens were covered.Ge. 7:20The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth ofmore than twenty feet. [Hebrew fifteen cubits (about 6.9metres)] [Or rose more than twenty feet, and the mountainswere covered]
17Ge. 7:21Every living thing that moved on the earth perished — birds,livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over theearth, and all mankind.Ge. 7:22Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in itsnostrils died.Ge. 7:23Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out;men and animals and the creatures that move along theground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth.Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.Ge. 7:24The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.CHAPTER 8Ge. 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and thelivestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a windover the earth, and the waters receded.Ge. 8:2Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of theheavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped fallingfrom the sky.Ge. 8:3The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of thehundred and fifty days the water had gone down,Ge. 8:4and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the arkcame to rest on the mountains of Ararat.Ge. 8:5The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and onthe first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountainsbecame visible.Ge. 8:6After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in thearkGe. 8:7and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth untilthe water had dried up from the earth.Ge. 8:8Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded fromthe surface of the ground.
18Ge. 8:9But the dove could find no place to set its feet because therewas water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned toNoah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the doveand brought it back to himself in the ark.Ge. 8:10He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove fromthe ark.Ge. 8:11When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in itsbeak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew thatthe water had receded from the earth.Ge. 8:12He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, butthis time it did not return to him.Ge. 8:13By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred andfirst year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah thenremoved the covering from the ark and saw that the surfaceof the ground was dry.Ge. 8:14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth wascompletely dry.Ge. 8:15Then God said to Noah,Ge. 8:16“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons andtheir wives.Ge. 8:17Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you —the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move alongthe ground — so they can multiply on the earth and befruitful and increase in number upon it.”Ge. 8:18So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife andhis sons’ wives.Ge. 8:19All the animals and all the creatures that move along theground and all the birds — everything that moves on theearth — came out of the ark, one kind after another.Ge. 8:20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of allthe clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offeringson it.
19Ge. 8:21The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart:“Never again will I curse the ground because of man, eventhough [Or man, for] every inclination of his heart is evilfrom childhood. And never again will I destroy all livingcreatures, as I have done.Ge. 8:22“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold andheat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”CHAPTER 9Ge. 9:1Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Befruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.Ge. 9:2The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of theearth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature thatmoves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; theyare given into your hands.Ge. 9:3Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just asI gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.Ge. 9:4“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.Ge. 9:5And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. Iwill demand an accounting from every animal. And from eachman, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of hisfellow man.Ge. 9:6“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood beshed; for in the image of God has God made man.Ge. 9:7As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on theearth and increase upon it.”Ge. 9:8Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:Ge. 9:9“I now establish my covenant with you and with yourdescendants after you
20Ge. 9:10and with every living creature that was with you — the birds,the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came outof the ark with you — every living creature on earth.Ge. 9:11I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life becut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be aflood to destroy the earth.”Ge. 9:12And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am makingbetween me and you and every living creature with you, acovenant for all generations to come:Ge. 9:13I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign ofthe covenant between me and the earth.Ge. 9:14Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbowappears in the clouds,Ge. 9:15I will remember my covenant between me and you and allliving creatures of every kind. Never again will the watersbecome a flood to destroy all life.Ge. 9:16Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it andremember the everlasting covenant between God and allliving creatures of every kind on the earth.”Ge. 9:17So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I haveestablished between me and all life on the earth.”Ge. 9:18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Hamand Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)Ge. 9:19These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came thepeople who were scattered over the earth.Ge. 9:20Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [Or soil, was the first] toplant a vineyard.Ge. 9:21When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and layuncovered inside his tent.Ge. 9:22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness andtold his two brothers outside.
21Ge. 9:23But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across theirshoulders; then they walked in backwards and covered theirfather’s nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way sothat they would not see their father’s nakedness.Ge. 9:24When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what hisyoungest son had done to him,Ge. 9:25he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he beto his brothers.”Ge. 9:26He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! MayCanaan be the slave of Shem. [Or be his slave]Ge. 9:27May God exte
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