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God’s Promise to Noah

1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: a“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.  
2 aAnd the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.  
3 aEvery moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you ball things, even as the cgreen herbs.  
4 aBut you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.  
5 Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; afrom the hand of every beast I will require it, and bfrom the hand of man. From the hand of every cman’s brother I will require the life of man. 
6 “Whoever asheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed;
bFor in the image of God
He made man. 
7 And as for you, abe fruitful and multiply;
Bring forth abundantly in the earth
And multiply in it.”  
8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:
9 “And as for Me, abehold, I establish bMy covenant with you and with your1 descendants after you,  
10 aand with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.  
11 Thus aI establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”  
12 And God said: a“This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:  
13 I set aMy rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.  
14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;
15 and aI will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.  
16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember athe everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”  
17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Noah and His Sons

18 Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. aAnd Ham was the father of Canaan.  
19 aThese three were the sons of Noah, band from these the whole earth was populated.  
20 And Noah began to be aa farmer, and he planted a vineyard.  
21 Then he drank of the wine aand was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.  
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
23 aBut Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were1 turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.  
24 So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.
25 Then he said:
a“Cursed be Canaan;
A bservant of servants
He shall be to his brethren.”  
26 And he said:
a“Blessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem,
And may Canaan be his servant. 
27 May God aenlarge Japheth,
bAnd may he dwell in the tents of Shem;
And may Canaan be his servant.”  
28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.
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Genesis

GENESIS, the book of the origin or production of all things, consists of two parts: the first, comprehended in the first through eleventh chapters, gives a general history; the second, contained in the subsequent chapters, gives a special history. The two parts are essentially connected; the one, which sets out with an account of the descent of the human race from a single pair, the introduction of sin into the world, and the announcement of the scheme of divine mercy for repairing the ruins of the fall, was necessary to pave the way for relating the other, namely, the call of Abraham, and the selection of his posterity for carrying out the gracious purpose of God. An evident unity of method, therefore, pervades this book, and the information contained in it was of the greatest importance to the Hebrew people, as without it they could not have understood the frequent references made in their law to the purposes and promises of God regarding themselves. The arguments that have been already adduced as establishing the Mosaic origin of the Pentateuch prove of course that Moses was the author of Genesis. The few passages on which the rationalists grounded their assertions that it was the composition of a later age have been successfully shown to warrant no such conclusion; the use of Egyptian words and the minute acquaintance with Egyptian life and manners, displayed in the history of Joseph, harmonize with the education of Moses, and whether he received his information by immediate revelation, from tradition, or from written documents, it comes to us as the authentic work of an author who wrote as he was inspired by the Holy Ghost (II Peter 1:21).

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