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

The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly on the earth, and multiply in it.”

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

“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.

Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”

Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.

All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.

وبارَكَ اللهُ نُوحًا وبَنيه وقالَ لَهم: «اُنْموا وٱكْثُروا وٱمْلَأُوا الأَرض

وخَوْفُكم وذُعرُكم يَكونانِ على جَميعِ وحُوشِ الأَرضِ وجَميعِ طُيورِ السَّماءِ وكُلِّ ما يَدِبُّ على الأَرضِ وأَسماكِ البَحْر، فإِنَّها مُسَلَّمةٌ إِلى أَيْديكم

وكُلُّ حَيٍّ يَدِبُّ يَكونُ لكم مَأكَلًا، وكما أَعطَيتُكمُ العُشْبَ الأَخضَر أُعْطِيكم هذا كُلَّه

ولكِنْ لَحْمًا بِنَفْسِه، أَي بِدَمِه، لا تأكُلوا

أَمَّا دِماؤكم، أَي نُفوسُكم، فأَطلُبُها، مِن يَدِ كُلِّ وَحْشٍ أَطلُبُها، ومِن يَدِ الإِنسان: مِن يَدِ كُلِّ إِنْسانٍ أَطلُبُ نَفْسَ أَخيه

مَن سفَكَ دَمَ الإِنسان سُفِكَ دَمُه عن يَدِ الإِنسان لِأَنَّه على صورةِ اللهِ صُنِعَ الإِنسان

وأَنتُم فٱنْموا وٱكْثُروا ولْتَعِجَّ الأَرضُ بِكم وتسلَّطوا عليها»

وخاطَبَ اللهُ نُوحًا وبَنيه معَه قائلًا

«هاءَنذا مُقيمٌ عَهْدي معَكُم ومعَ نَسْلِكم مِن بَعدِكم

ومع كُلِّ ذي نَفْسٍ حَيَّةٍ معَكم، مِنَ الطُّيورِ والبَهائِمِ ووُحوشِ الأَرضِ الَّتي مَعَكم: أَي كُلِّ ما خَرَجَ مِنَ السَّفينة وجَميعِ حَيَواناتِ الأَرض

وأُقيمُ عَهْدي معَكم، فكُلُّ ذي جَسَدٍ لا يَنقَرِضُ بَعدَ اليَومِ بِمِياهِ الطُّوفان، ولا يَكونُ بَعدَ اليَومِ طُوفانٌ لِيُتلِفَ الأَرض»

وقالَ الله: «هذه عَلامةُ العَهْدِ الَّذي أنا جاعِلُه بَيْني وبَينَكم وبَينَ كُلِّ ذي نَفْسٍ حَيَّةٍ معَكم مَدى الأَجْيالِ لِلْأَبَد

تِلْكَ قَوْسي جَعَلْتُها في الغَمام فتَكونُ عَلامةَ عَهْدي بَيْني وبَيْنَ الأَرض

ويَكونُ أَنَّه إِذا غَيَّمتُ على الأَرضِ وَظَهَرَتِ القَوسُ في الغَمام

ذَكَرتُ عَهْدِيَ الَّذي بَيْني وبَينَكم وبَينَ كُلِّ نَفْسٍ حَيَّةٍ في كُلِّ جَسَد، فلا تَكونُ المِياهُ بَعدَ اليَومِ طُوفانًا لِتُهلِكَ كُلَّ ذي جَسَد

وتَكونُ القَوسُ في الغَمام، حتَّى إِذا رَأَيتُها ذَكَرتُ العَهْدَ الأَبَدِيَّ بَينَ اللهِ وكُلِّ نَفْسٍ حَيَّةٍ من كُلِّ ذي جَسَدٍ على الأَرض»

وقالَ اللهُ لِنُوح: «هٰذِه عَلامةُ العَهْدِ الَّذي أَقَمتُه بَيني وبَينَ كُلِّ ذي جَسَدٍ على الأَرض»

وكانَ بَنو نوحٍ الَّذينَ خَرَجوا مِنَ السَّفينةِ سامًا وحامًا ويافَث. وحامٌ هو أَبو كَنْعان

هٰؤُلاءِ الثَّلاثةُ هم بَنو نُوح، ومِنْهمُ ٱنتَشَرَ النَّاسُ في الأَرضِ كُلِّها

وَٱبتَدَأَ نُوحٌ حارِثُ الأَرضِ يَغرِسُ الكَرْم

وشَرِبَ من الخَمرِ فسَكِرَ وتَكشَّفَ في داخِلِ خَيمَتِه

فرأَى حامٌ أَبو كَنْعانَ عَورَةَ أَبيه فأَخبَرَ أَخَوَيه وهُما في خارِجِ الخَيمَة

فأَخَذَ سامٌ ويافَثُ الرِّدَاءَ وجَعَلاه على كَتِفَيهِما ومَشَيَا إِلى الوَراء فغَطَّيا عَورَةَ أَبيهِما، وَوَجْهُهما إِلى الجِهَةِ الأُخْرى، فلَم يَريَا عَورَةَ أَبيهِما

فلَمَّا أَفاقَ نُوحٌ مِن خَمرِه، عَلِمَ ما صَنَعَ بِه ٱبْنُه الصَّغير

فقال: «مَلْعونٌ كَنْعان! عَبْدًا يَكونُ لِعَبيدِ إِخوَتِه»

وقال: «مُبارَكٌ الرَّبُّ إِلٰهُ سامٍ ولْيَكُنْ كَنْعانُ عَبْدًا له!

لِيُوَسِّعِ اللهُ لِيافَث ولْيَسكُنْ في خِيامِ سام ولْيَكُنْ كَنْعانُ عبدًا لَه!»

وعاشَ نُوحٌ بَعدَ الطُّوفانِ ثَلاثَ مِئَةِ سَنَةٍ وخَمْسينَ سَنَة

فكانَت كُلُّ أَيَّامِ نُوحٍ تِسْعَ مِئَةِ سَنَةٍ وخَمْسينَ سنة، ومات