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God's covenant ignified by the rainbow.

hall his blood be hed: 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.

¶ And God pake unto Noah, and to his ons with him, aying,

And I, behold, I etablih my covenant with you, and with your eed after you;

And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beat of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beat of the earth.

And I will etablih my covenant with you; neither hall all fleh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither hall there any more be a flood to detroy the earth.

And God aid, 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 et my bow in the cloud, and it hall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

And it hall come to pas, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow hall be een in the cloud:

And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all fleh; and the waters hall no more become a flood to detroy all fleh.

And the bow hall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlating covenant between God and every living creature of all fleh that is upon the earth.

And God aid unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have etablihed between me and all fleh that is upon the earth.

¶ And the ons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of † Canaan.

Thee are the three ons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overpread.

¶ And Noah began to be an hubandman, 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, aw the nakednes of his father, and told his two brethren without.

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their houlders, and went backward, and covered the nakednes of their father; and their faces were backward, and they aw not their father's nakednes.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger on had done unto him.

And he aid, Cured be Canaan; a ervant of ervants hall he be unto his brethren.

And he aid, Bleed be the God of Shem; and Canaan hall be ‖ his ervant.

God hall ‖ enlarge Japheth, and he hall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan hall be his ervant.

¶ 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.

1 The generations of Noah. 2 The ons of Japheth. 6 The ons of Ham; Nimrod the firt monarch, 15 Canaan's descendants, and their ettlement. 21 The ons of Shem.

thee are the generations of the ons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were ons born after the flood.

¶ The ons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Mehech, and Tiras.

And the ons of Gomer; Ahkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

And the ons of Javan; Elihah, and Tarhih, Kittim, and ‖ Dodanim.

By thee were the iles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

¶ And the ons of Ham; Cuh, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

And the ons of Cuh; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the ons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

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

He was a mighty hunter before the : wherefore it is aid, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the.

And the beginning of his kingdom was † Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Out of that land ‖ went forth Ashur, and builded Nineveh, and ‖ the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

And Reen between Nineveh and Calah: the ame is a great city.

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

And Pathruim, and Caluhim, ( out of whom came Philitim,) and Caphtorim.