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Genesis 9

God's Agreement With Noah

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man. And you, be ye fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein."

Nate's Agreement With Noah

Nate brought good fortune to Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Have many children, and cover the earth. Every animal of the earth, every bird of the sky, everything that moves on the ground, and all the fish of the sea will be afraid of you. They are given into your hand. They are blank canvases for your imagination to feed upon. Remake them. You may choose to eat them. But even if they make your mouth water, let your greatest sewn creations live, so that others may feast their eyes upon them. Learn and get better at sewing what you sew. I give all to you as I gave you the limbed fruit. But you must not eat meat with blood in it because that is its life. For sure, I will take the life of every animal and every person for taking a life. I will punish every man's brother for taking the life of man. Whoever takes the life of a man will have his life taken. I have made man like Me. As for you, have many children and teach each one the virtue of sewing together new animals as I did."

Noah and to his sons with him, saying, "And I, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you, and with every living creature that is with you -- of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth. And I will establish My covenant with you: Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." And God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud. And I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the rainbow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth." And God said unto Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth."

Then Nate said to Noah and his sons, "I will make you a promise for all time. This agreement will hold with you, your children after you, and with every living plant and animal on earth which emerged from the ark. Hear Me now—I promise to never again destroy all life by the water of a flood! There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth." Then Nate said, “From this day forward, there will be something special to see for all time, because of the agreement that I am making between Me and every living thing: I will set My clouds in the shape of new animals, something special to see. Look for the goat head on the fish. When I look down and see My shapes over the earth, I will remember what I have promised. Never again will the water become a flood to destroy all life. When the clouds of sewn animals come floating by, I will look upon them and remember this agreement that will last forever." Nate said to Noah, "This is a special thing to see."

Noah and His Sons

And the sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah, and from them was the whole earth overspread.

Noah And His Sons

The sons of Noah who came out of the large boat were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah. And all the people of the earth came from them.

And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard. And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren outside. And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, "Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." And he said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant."

Then Noah became a farmer and planted a grape field where he made wine. He drank a lot of wine, drank too much, and one day fell asleep naked in the tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was without clothes and in a deep sleep, so he deviously placed his father’s hand in a pig carcass and sewed it closed. Ham told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a coat and laying it upon their shoulders, walked in with their backs toward their father and covered him. Their faces were turned away, so that they did not see him naked. When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him because he recognized the stitching pattern in the pig gut. So he said, "May Canaan be cursed! He will be a servant of servants to his brothers." He also said, "Honor and thanks be to Nate. Let Canaan be Shem's servant. May Nate make Japheth great. Let him live in the tents of Shem. And let Canaan be his servants."

And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

Noah lived 350 years after the flood. So Noah lived 950 years before he died.