The Message

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            <div class="label">9</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4" data-usfm="GEN.9.1+GEN.9.2+GEN.9.3+GEN.9.4"><span class="label">1-4</span><span class="content">God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, &#8220;Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth! Every living creature&#8212;birds, animals, fish&#8212;will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You&#8217;re responsible for them. All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else. Except for meat with its lifeblood still in it&#8212;don&#8217;t eat that.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1 v2 v3 v4" data-usfm="GEN.9.1+GEN.9.2+GEN.9.3+GEN.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;But your own lifeblood I will avenge; I will avenge it against both animals and other humans.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6 v7" data-usfm="GEN.9.6+GEN.9.7"><span class="label">6-7</span><span class="content">Whoever sheds human blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6 v7" data-usfm="GEN.9.6+GEN.9.7"><span class="content">by humans let his blood be shed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6 v7" data-usfm="GEN.9.6+GEN.9.7"><span class="content">Because God made humans in his image</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6 v7" data-usfm="GEN.9.6+GEN.9.7"><span class="content">reflecting God&#8217;s very nature.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6 v7" data-usfm="GEN.9.6+GEN.9.7"><span class="content">You&#8217;re here to bear fruit, reproduce,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6 v7" data-usfm="GEN.9.6+GEN.9.7"><span class="content">lavish life on the Earth, live bountifully!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6 v7" data-usfm="GEN.9.6+GEN.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8 v9 v10 v11" data-usfm="GEN.9.8+GEN.9.9+GEN.9.10+GEN.9.11"><span class="label">8-11</span><span class="content">Then God spoke to Noah and his sons: &#8220;I&#8217;m setting up my covenant with you including your children who will come after you, along with everything alive around you&#8212;birds, farm animals, wild animals&#8212;that came out of the ship with you. I&#8217;m setting up my covenant with you that never again will everything living be destroyed by floodwaters; no, never again will a flood destroy the Earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8 v9 v10 v11" data-usfm="GEN.9.8+GEN.9.9+GEN.9.10+GEN.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12 v13 v14 v15 v16" data-usfm="GEN.9.12+GEN.9.13+GEN.9.14+GEN.9.15+GEN.9.16"><span class="label">12-16</span><span class="content">God continued, &#8220;This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you. I&#8217;m putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, I&#8217;ll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life. When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I&#8217;ll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12 v13 v14 v15 v16" data-usfm="GEN.9.12+GEN.9.13+GEN.9.14+GEN.9.15+GEN.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And God said, &#8220;This is the sign of the covenant that I&#8217;ve set up between me and everything living on the Earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.9.18+GEN.9.19"><span class="label">18-19</span><span class="content">The sons of Noah who came out of the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah; from these three the whole Earth was populated.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18 v19" data-usfm="GEN.9.18+GEN.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20 v21 v22 v23" data-usfm="GEN.9.20+GEN.9.21+GEN.9.22+GEN.9.23"><span class="label">20-23</span><span class="content">Noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank from its wine, got drunk and passed out, naked in his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his two brothers who were outside the tent. Shem and Japheth took a cloak, held it between them from their shoulders, walked backward and covered their father&#8217;s nakedness, keeping their faces turned away so they did not see their father&#8217;s exposed body.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20 v21 v22 v23" data-usfm="GEN.9.20+GEN.9.21+GEN.9.22+GEN.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24 v25 v26 v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.24+GEN.9.25+GEN.9.26+GEN.9.27"><span class="label">24-27</span><span class="content">When Noah woke up with his hangover, he learned what his youngest son had done. He said,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24 v25 v26 v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.24+GEN.9.25+GEN.9.26+GEN.9.27"><span class="content">Cursed be Canaan! A slave of slaves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24 v25 v26 v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.24+GEN.9.25+GEN.9.26+GEN.9.27"><span class="content">a slave to his brothers!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24 v25 v26 v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.24+GEN.9.25+GEN.9.26+GEN.9.27"><span class="content">Blessed be </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Shem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24 v25 v26 v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.24+GEN.9.25+GEN.9.26+GEN.9.27"><span class="content">but Canaan shall be his slave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24 v25 v26 v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.24+GEN.9.25+GEN.9.26+GEN.9.27"><span class="content">God prosper Japheth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24 v25 v26 v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.24+GEN.9.25+GEN.9.26+GEN.9.27"><span class="content">living spaciously in the tents of Shem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24 v25 v26 v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.24+GEN.9.25+GEN.9.26+GEN.9.27"><span class="content">But Canaan shall be his slave.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24 v25 v26 v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.24+GEN.9.25+GEN.9.26+GEN.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28 v29" data-usfm="GEN.9.28+GEN.9.29"><span class="label">28-29</span><span class="content">Noah lived another 350 years following the flood. He lived a total of 950 years. And he died.</span></span></div>
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God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, “Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth! Every living creature—birds, animals, fish—will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You’re responsible for them. All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else. Except for meat with its lifeblood still in it—don’t eat that.
“But your own lifeblood I will avenge; I will avenge it against both animals and other humans.

Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans let his blood be shed,
Because God made humans in his image
reflecting God’s very nature.
You’re here to bear fruit, reproduce,
lavish life on the Earth, live bountifully!”

Then God spoke to Noah and his sons: “I’m setting up my covenant with you including your children who will come after you, along with everything alive around you—birds, farm animals, wild animals—that came out of the ship with you. I’m setting up my covenant with you that never again will everything living be destroyed by floodwaters; no, never again will a flood destroy the Earth.”
God continued, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you. I’m putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, I’ll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life. When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I’ll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth.”
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I’ve set up between me and everything living on the Earth.”

The sons of Noah who came out of the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah; from these three the whole Earth was populated.

Noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank from its wine, got drunk and passed out, naked in his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his two brothers who were outside the tent. Shem and Japheth took a cloak, held it between them from their shoulders, walked backward and covered their father’s nakedness, keeping their faces turned away so they did not see their father’s exposed body.
When Noah woke up with his hangover, he learned what his youngest son had done. He said,

Cursed be Canaan! A slave of slaves,
a slave to his brothers!
Blessed be GOD, the God of Shem,
but Canaan shall be his slave.
God prosper Japheth,
living spaciously in the tents of Shem.
But Canaan shall be his slave.

Noah lived another 350 years following the flood. He lived a total of 950 years. And he died.

Listen to Genesis 9