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Genesis 9 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - “And the fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the [fn]sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; as with the green plant, I give all to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:4 - “However, flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5 - “Surely I will require [fn]your lifeblood; [fn]from every living thing I will require it. And [fn]from every man, [fn]from each man’s brother I will require the life of man.

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“Whoever sheds man’s blood,

By man his blood shall be shed,

For in the image of God

He made man.

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“As for you, be fruitful and multiply;

[fn]Swarm on the earth and multiply in it.”

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Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:9 - “As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:11 - “Indeed I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, and there shall never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:12 - Then God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am giving to be between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for [fn]all successive generations;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:13 - I put My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:14 - “And it will be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:16 - “So the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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.”

Noah’s Three Sons

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Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:19 - These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was scattered abroad.

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Then Noah began to be [fn]a man of the land and planted a vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:21 - And he drank of the wine and became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:22 - Then Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:23 - But Shem and Japheth took the garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:24 - Then Noah awoke from his wine, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25 - So he said,

“Cursed be Canaan;

[fn]A servant of servants

He shall be to his brothers.”

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And he said,

“Blessed be Yahweh,

The God of Shem;

And let Canaan be [fn]his servant.

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“May God enlarge Japheth,

And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;

And let Canaan be [fn]his servant.”

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And Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:29 - So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.
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Lit heavens
Lit your blood of your lives
Lit from the hand of
Lit from the hand of
Lit from the hand of
Or increase, cf. Ex 1:7
Or everlasting generations
Or a farmer
The lowest of servants
Or their
Or their
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Genesis Chapter 9 — Additional Translations:

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