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¹And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.[ † ]Genesis 1:28-29Genesis 8:17Genesis 9:7-19Genesis 10:32 ²The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.[ † ]Genesis 1:26-28Psalms 8:6 ³Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.[ † ]Deuteronomy 12:15Deuteronomy 14:3-9, 11Acts 10:12-13Romans 14:14-201 Corinthians 10:23-26Colossians 2:161 Timothy 4:3-4Genesis 1:29 ⁴But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.[ † ]Leviticus 7:26Leviticus 17:10-16Leviticus 19:26Deuteronomy 12:16-23Deuteronomy 15:231 Samuel 14:33-34Acts 15:20-29 ⁵And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:[ † ]Exodus 21:28Genesis 4:9-10Psalms 9:12Acts 17:26

⁸Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, ⁹“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,[ † ]Genesis 6:18Isaiah 54:9 ¹⁰and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.[ † ]Psalms 145:9 ¹¹And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”[ † ]Genesis 8:21Isaiah 54:9

¹²And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:[ † ]Genesis 9:13-17Genesis 17:11 ¹³I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.[ † ]Ezekiel 1:28Revelation 4:3

¹⁴Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, ¹⁵I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.[ † ]Leviticus 26:42-45Deuteronomy 7:9Ezekiel 16:60 ¹⁶And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”[ † ]Genesis 17:13-192 Samuel 23:5Isaiah 55:3Jeremiah 32:40Hebrews 13:20

¹⁷So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”

¹⁸The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.[ † ]Genesis 9:25-27Genesis 10:6 ¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.[ † ]Genesis 5:32Genesis 9:1-7Genesis 10:321 Chronicles 1:4

²⁰Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.[ † ]Genesis 3:19-23Genesis 4:2Proverbs 12:11Jeremiah 31:24 ²¹But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.[ † ]Proverbs 20:1Ephesians 5:18 ²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

²³Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.[ † ]Exodus 20:12Galatians 6:1

²⁴When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

²⁸After the flood, Noah lived 350 years. ²⁹So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.