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		Gen 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
		Gen 9:2 "The fear and the terror of you shall be [instinctive] in every animal of the land and in every bird of the air; and together with everything that moves on the ground, and with all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hand.
		Gen 9:3 "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; I give you everything, as I gave you the green plants and vegetables.
		Gen 9:4 "But you shall not eat meat along with its life, that is, its blood. [Lev 7:26; Acts 15:20; 21:25]
		Gen 9:5 "For your lifeblood I will most certainly require an accounting; from every animal [that kills a person] I will require it. And from man, from every man's brother [that is, anyone who murders] I will require the life of man. [Ex 21:28, 29]
		Gen 9:6 "Whoever sheds man's blood [unlawfully], By man (judicial government) shall his blood be shed, For in the image of God He made man. [Rom 13:4]
		Gen 9:7 "As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."
		Gen 9:8 ¶ Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
		Gen 9:9 "Now behold, I am establishing My covenant (binding agreement, solemn promise) with you and with your descendants after you
		Gen 9:10 and with every living creature that is with you--the birds, the livestock, and the wild animals of the earth along with you, of everything that comes out of the ark--every living creature of the earth.
		Gen 9:11 "I will establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the water of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to destroy and ruin the earth."
		Gen 9:12 And God said, "This is the token (visible symbol, memorial) of the [solemn] covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations;
		Gen 9:13 I set My rainbow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
		Gen 9:14 "It shall come about, when I bring clouds over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the clouds,
		Gen 9:15 and I will [compassionately] remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again will the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
		Gen 9:16 "When the rainbow is in the clouds and I look at it, I will [solemnly] remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
		Gen 9:17 And God said to Noah, "This [rainbow] is the sign of the covenant (solemn pledge, binding agreement) which I have established between Me and all living things on the earth."
		Gen 9:18 ¶ The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. Ham would become the father of Canaan.
		Gen 9:19 These are the three sons of Noah, and from these [men] the whole earth was populated and scattered with inhabitants.
		Gen 9:20 ¶ And Noah began to farm and cultivate the ground and he planted a vineyard.
		Gen 9:21 He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he was uncovered and lay exposed inside his tent.
		Gen 9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw [by accident] the nakedness of his father, and [to his father's shame] told his two brothers outside.
		Gen 9:23 So Shem and Japheth took a robe and put it on both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.
		Gen 9:24 When Noah awoke from his wine [induced stupor], he knew what his younger son [Ham] had done to him.
		Gen 9:25 So he said, "Cursed be Canaan [the son of Ham]; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers." [Deut 27:16]
		Gen 9:26 He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.
		Gen 9:27 "May God enlarge [the land of] Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant."
		Gen 9:28 ¶ Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
		Gen 9:29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

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