Covenant of the Rainbow
1 Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
2 Genesis 9:2 “The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.
3 Genesis 9:3 “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.
4 Genesis 9:4 “Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
5 Genesis 9:5 “Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
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8 Genesis 9:8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
9 Genesis 9:9 “Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;
10 Genesis 9:10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
11 Genesis 9:11 “I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 Genesis 9:12 God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;
13 Genesis 9:13 I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
14 Genesis 9:14 “It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,
15 Genesis 9:15 and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 Genesis 9:16 “When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
17 Genesis 9:17 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.”
18 Genesis 9:18 Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
19 Genesis 9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
20 Genesis 9:20 Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.
21 Genesis 9:21 He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
22 Genesis 9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
23 Genesis 9:23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
24 Genesis 9:24 When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.
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So he said,
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He also said,
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28 Genesis 9:28 Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
29 Genesis 9:29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.