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Ch. IX. To you I have subjected them and every reptile which hath life. They shall be food for you. As the herb of grass I have given you them all. But flesh with the blood of life you shall not eat. For with regard to your blood of your lives, I will indeed make inquisition for it at the hand of the beasts. At the hand of a man's brother I will make inquisition for the life of man. He who sheddeth man's blood shall for it have his own blood poured out; for in an image of God I have made man. As for you therefore be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and have dominion over it."

Moreover God spoke to Noe and to his sons with him, saying, "Behold I renew my covenant with you and with your seed after you, and with every living creature with you both birds and cattle and with all the wild beasts of the earth which are with you; even with all that went out of the ark.  And this covenant of mine I will lay before you. All flesh shall no more die by the water of a deluge; nor shall there any more be a deluge of water to destroy the whole earth."

Moreover the Lord God said to Noe, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature which is with you for perpetual generations. This bow of mine I place in the clouds and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth,  so that when I cause clouds to gather upon the earth,  the bow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember this my covenant, which is between me and you and every life living in all flesh, and the water shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.  When this my bow shall be in the cloud, I will look that I may remember the everlasting covenant between me and the earth and life living in all flesh which is on the earth.  Therefore (said God to Noe) this is the sign of the covenant which I have made between me and all flesh which is on the earth."

Now these were the sons of Noe who went out of the ark, Sem, Cham, and Japheth. And Cham was the father of Chanaan. These three are the sons of Noe. From them men were disseminated over the whole earth.

Now Noe being a husbandman, began and planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine and was intoxicated and uncovered in his house. And Cham, the father of Chanaan, saw