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Covenant of the Rainbow

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "^(C1)Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.² "The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the ^(F1)sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.³ "Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, ^(C1)as I gave the green plant.⁴ "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, ^(C1)its blood.⁵ "Surely I will require ^(F1)(C1)your lifeblood; ^(F2)(C2)from every beast I will require it. And ^(F2)from every man, ^(F2)from every man's brother I will require the life of man.

⁶ "^(C1)Whoever sheds man's blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For ^(C2)in the image of God
He made man.

⁷ "As for you, ^(C1)be fruitful and multiply;
^(F1)Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."

⁸ Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,⁹ "Now behold, ^(C1)I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your ^(F1)descendants after you;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 "I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall ^(C1)never again be cut off by the water of the flood, ^(C2)neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth."¹² God said, "This is ^(C1)the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for ^(F1)all successive generations;¹³ I set My ^(C1)bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.¹⁴ "It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,¹⁵ and ^(C1)I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and ^(C2)never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.¹⁶ "When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the ^(C1)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."

¹⁸ Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and ^(C1)Ham was the father of Canaan.¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah, and ^(C1)from these the whole earth was ^(F1)populated.

²⁰ Then Noah began ^(F1)farming and planted a vineyard.²¹ He drank of the wine and ^(C1)became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.²² Ham, the father of Canaan, ^(C1)saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.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 ^(F1)turned away, so that they did not see their father's nakedness.²⁴ When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.²⁵ So he said,

"^(C1)Cursed be Canaan;
^(F1)(C2)A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers."