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So God blessed Noah and his sons ,
and said to them : "
Be fruitful and multiply ,
and fill the earth .
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And 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 .
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Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you .
I have given you all things ,
even as the green herbs .
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But you shall not eat flesh with its life ,
that is ,
its blood .
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Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning ;
from the hand of every beast I will require it ,
and from the hand of man .
From the hand of every 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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And as for you ,
be fruitful and multiply ;
Bring forth abundantly in 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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And as for Me ,
behold ,
I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you ,
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and 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 .
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Thus I 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 ."
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And God said : "
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 :
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I set My rainbow in the cloud ,
and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth .
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It shall be ,
when I bring a cloud over the earth ,
that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud ;
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and I 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 .
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The rainbow shall be in the cloud ,
and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth ."
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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 ."
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Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem ,
Ham ,
and Japheth .
And Ham was the father of Canaan .
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These three were the sons of Noah ,
and from these the whole earth was populated .
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And Noah began to be a farmer ,
and he planted a vineyard .
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Then he drank of the wine and was drunk ,
and became uncovered in his tent .
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And Ham ,
the father of Canaan ,
saw the nakedness of his father ,
and told his two brothers outside .
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But Shem and Japheth took a garment ,
laid it on both their shoulders ,
and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father .
Their faces were turned away ,
and they did not see their father '
s nakedness .
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So Noah awoke from his wine ,
and knew what his younger son had done to him .
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Then he said : "
Cursed be Canaan ;
A servant of servants He shall be to his brethren ."
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And he said : "
Blessed be the LORD ,
The God of Shem ,
And may Canaan be his servant .
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May God enlarge Japheth ,
And may he dwell in the tents of Shem ;
And may Canaan be his servant ."
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And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years .
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So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years ;
and he died .
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Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah :
Shem ,
Ham ,
and Japheth .
And sons were born to them after the flood .
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The sons of Japheth were Gomer ,
Magog ,
Madai ,
Javan ,
Tubal ,
Meshech ,
and Tiras .
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The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz ,
Riphath ,
and Togarmah .
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The sons of Javan were Elishah ,
Tarshish ,
Kittim ,
and Dodanim .
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From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands ,
everyone according to his language ,
according to their families ,
into their nations .
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The sons of Ham were Cush ,
Mizraim ,
Put ,
and Canaan .
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The sons of Cush were Seba ,
Havilah ,
Sabtah ,
Raamah ,
and Sabtechah ;
and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan .
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Cush begot Nimrod ;
he began to be a mighty one on the earth .
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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD ;
therefore it is said , "
Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD ."
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And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel ,
Erech ,
Accad ,
and Calneh ,
in the land of Shinar .
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From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh ,
Rehoboth Ir ,
Calah ,
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and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (
that is the principal city ).
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Mizraim begot Ludim ,
Anamim ,
Lehabim ,
Naphtuhim ,
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Pathrusim ,
and Casluhim (
from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim ).
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Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn ,
and Heth ;
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the Jebusite ,
the Amorite ,
and the Girgashite ;
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the Hivite ,
the Arkite ,
and the Sinite ;
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the Arvadite ,
the Zemarite ,
and the Hamathite .
Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed .
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And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar ,
as far as Gaza ;
then as you go toward Sodom ,
Gomorrah ,
Admah ,
and Zeboiim ,
as far as Lasha .
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These were the sons of Ham ,
according to their families ,
according to their languages ,
in their lands and in their nations .
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And children were born also to Shem ,
the father of all the children of Eber ,
the brother of Japheth the elder .
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The sons of Shem were Elam ,
Asshur ,
Arphaxad ,
Lud ,
and Aram .
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The sons of Aram were Uz ,
Hul ,
Gether ,
and Mash .
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Arphaxad begot Salah ,
and Salah begot Eber .
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To Eber were born two sons :
the name of one was Peleg ,
for in his days the earth was divided ;
and his brother '
s name was Joktan .
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Joktan begot Almodad ,
Sheleph ,
Hazarmaveth ,
Jerah ,
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Hadoram ,
Uzal ,
Diklah ,
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Obal ,
Abimael ,
Sheba ,
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Ophir ,
Havilah ,
and Jobab .
All these were the sons of Joktan .
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And their dwelling place was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar ,
the mountain of the east .
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These were the sons of Shem ,
according to their families ,
according to their languages ,
in their lands ,
according to their nations .
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These were the families of the sons of Noah ,
according to their generations ,
in their nations ;
and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood .
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Now the whole earth had one language and one speech .
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And it came to pass ,
as they journeyed from the east ,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ,
and they dwelt there .
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Then they said to one another , "
Come ,
let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly ."
They had brick for stone ,
and they had asphalt for mortar .
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And they said , "
Come ,
let us build ourselves a city ,
and a tower whose top is in the heavens ;
let us make a name for ourselves ,
lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth ."
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But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built .
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And the LORD said , "
Indeed the people are one and they all have one language ,
and this is what they begin to do ;
now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them .
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Come ,
let Us go down and there confuse their language ,
that they may not understand one another '
s speech ."
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So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth ,
and they ceased building the city .
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Therefore its name is called Babel ,
because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth ;
and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth .
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This is the genealogy of Shem :
Shem was one hundred years old ,
and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood .
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After he begot Arphaxad ,
Shem lived five hundred years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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Arphaxad lived thirty-five years ,
and begot Salah .
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After he begot Salah ,
Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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Salah lived thirty years ,
and begot Eber .
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After he begot Eber ,
Salah lived four hundred and three years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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Eber lived thirty-four years ,
and begot Peleg .
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After he begot Peleg ,
Eber lived four hundred and thirty years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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Peleg lived thirty years ,
and begot Reu .
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After he begot Reu ,
Peleg lived two hundred and nine years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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Reu lived thirty-two years ,
and begot Serug .
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After he begot Serug ,
Reu lived two hundred and seven years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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Serug lived thirty years ,
and begot Nahor .
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After he begot Nahor ,
Serug lived two hundred years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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Nahor lived twenty-nine years ,
and begot Terah .
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After he begot Terah ,
Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years ,
and begot sons and daughters .
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Now Terah lived seventy years ,
and begot Abram ,
Nahor ,
and Haran .
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This is the genealogy of Terah :
Terah begot Abram ,
Nahor ,
and Haran .
Haran begot Lot .
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And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land ,
in Ur of the Chaldeans .
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Then Abram and Nahor took wives :
the name of Abram '
s wife was Sarai ,
and the name of Nahor '
s wife ,
Milcah ,
the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah .
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But Sarai was barren ;
she had no child .
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And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot ,
the son of Haran ,
and his daughter-in-law Sarai ,
his son Abram '
s wife ,
and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan ;
and they came to Haran and dwelt there .
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So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years ,
and Terah died in Haran .
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Now the LORD had said to Abram : "
Get out of your country ,
From your family And from your father '
s house ,
To a land that I will show you .
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I will make you a great nation ;
I will bless you And make your name great ;
And you shall be a blessing .
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I will bless those who bless you ,
And I will curse him who curses you ;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed ."
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So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him ,
and Lot went with him .
And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran .
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Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother '
s son ,
and all their possessions that they had gathered ,
and the people whom they had acquired in Haran ,
and they departed to go to the land of Canaan .
So they came to the land of Canaan .
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Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem ,
as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh .
And the Canaanites were then in the land .
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Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said , "
To your descendants I will give this land ."
And there he built an altar to the LORD ,
who had appeared to him .
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And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel ,
and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east ;
there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD .
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So Abram journeyed ,
going on still toward the South .
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Now there was a famine in the land ,
and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there ,
for the famine was severe in the land .
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And it came to pass ,
when he was close to entering Egypt ,
that he said to Sarai his wife , "
Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance .
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Therefore it will happen ,
when the Egyptians see you ,
that they will say , "
This is his wife ';
and they will kill me ,
but they will let you live .
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Please say you are my sister ,
that it may be well with me for your sake ,
and that I may live because of you ."
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So it was ,
when Abram came into Egypt ,
that the Egyptians saw the woman ,
that she was very beautiful .
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The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh .
And the woman was taken to Pharaoh '
s house .
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He treated Abram well for her sake .
He had sheep ,
oxen ,
male donkeys ,
male and female servants ,
female donkeys ,
and camels .
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But the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai ,
Abram '
s wife .
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And Pharaoh called Abram and said , "
What is this you have done to me ?
Why did you not tell me that she was your wife ?
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Why did you say , "
She is my sister '?
I might have taken her as my wife .
Now therefore ,
here is your wife ;
take her and go your way ."
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So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him ;
and they sent him away ,
with his wife and all that he had .
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Then Abram went up from Egypt ,
he and his wife and all that he had ,
and Lot with him ,
to the South .