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The Rainbow. liues will I require: at the hand of euery beaſt will I require it, ⁊ at the hand of man, at the hand of euery mans brother will I require the life of man.


 * Who ſo ſheddeth mans blood, by man ſhall his blood be ſhed: *for in the image of God made he man.

And you, be ye fruitfull, and multiply, bring foorth aboundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

¶And God ſpake vnto Noah, and to his ſonnes with him, ſaying;

And I, behold, I eſtabliſh my couenant with you, and with your ſeede after you:

And with euery liuing creature that is with you, of the fowle, of the cattell, and of euery beaſt of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, to euery beaſt of the earth.

And *I wil eſtabliſh my couenant with you, neither ſhal 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 Couenant which I make betweene mee and you, and euery liuing creature that is with you, for perpetuall generations.

I doe ſet my bow in the cloud, and it ſhall be for a token of a couenant, betweene me and the earth.


 * And it ſhall come to paſſe, when I bring a cloud ouer the earth, that the bow ſhall be ſeene in the cloud.

And I will remember my couenant, which is betweene mee and you, and euery liuing creature of all fleſh, and the waters ſhall no more become a flood to deſtroy all fleſh.

And the bow ſhalbe in the cloud; and I will looke vpon it, that I may remember the euerlasting couenant betweene God and euery liuing creature, of all fleſh that is vpon the earth.

And God ſaid vnto Noah, This is the token of the couenant, which I haue eſtabliſhed betweene mee and all fleſh, that is vpon the earth.

¶And the ſonnes of Noah that went forth of the Arke, were Shem, and Ham, and Iaphet: and Ham is the father of ‖ Canaan.

Theſe are the three ſonnes of Noah: and of them was the whole earth ouerſpread.

And Noah began to bee an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.

And he dranke of the wine, and was drunken, and hee was vncouered within his tent.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, ſaw the nakedneſſe of his father, and told his two brethren without.

And Shem and Iaphet tooke a garment, and layed it vpon bboth their ſhoulders, and went backward, and couered the nakedneſſe of their father, and their faces were backward, and they ſaw not their fathers nakedneſſe.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his yonger ſonne had done vnto him.

And he ſaid, Curſed bee Canaan: a ſeruant of ſeruants ſhall bee vnto his brethren.

And hee ſaide, Bleſſed bee the LORD God of Shem, and Canaan ſhalbe ‖ his ſeruant.

God ſhall ‖ enlarge Iaphet, and he ſhal dwel in the tents of Shem, and Canaan ſhalbe his ſeruant.

¶And Noah liued after the flood, three hundred and fifty yeeres.

And all the dayes of Noah were nine hundred ⁊ fifty yeeres, and he died.

Ow theſe are the generations of the ſonnes of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Iaphet: and vnto them were ſonnes borne after the Flood.


 * The ſonnes of Iaphet: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, ⁊ Tubal, and Meſhech, ⁊ Tiras.

And the ſonnes of Gomer: Aſhkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

And the ſons of Iauan: Eliſah, and Tarſhiſh, Kittim, and Dadanim.

By theſe were the Iles of the Gentiles diuided in their lands, euery one after his tongue: after their families, in their nations.

¶ *And the ſonnes of Ham: Cuſh, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

And the ſonnes of Cuſh, Seba, and Hauilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the ſonnes of Raamah: sheba, and Dedan.

And Cuſh begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

He was a mighty hunter before the