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3. FROM THE FLOOD TO ABRAHAM
The new world order
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God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, ‘Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.
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Be the terror and the dread of all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven, of everything that crawls on the ground and all the fish of the sea; they are handed over to you.
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Every living and crawling thing shall provide food for you, no less than the foliage of plants. I give you everything,
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with this exception: you must not eat flesh with life, that is to say blood, in it.
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I will demand an account of your life-blood. I will demand an account from every beast and from man. I will demand an account of every man’s life from his fellow men.
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‘He who sheds man’s blood, shall have his blood shed by man, for in the image of God man was made.
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‘As for you, be fruitful, multiply, teem over the earth and be lord of it.’
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God spoke to Noah and his sons,
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‘See, I establish my Covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;
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also with every living creature to be found with you, birds, cattle and every wild beast with you: everything that came out of the ark, everything that lives on the earth.
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I establish my Covenant with you: no thing of flesh shall be swept away again by the waters of the flood. There shall be no flood to destroy the earth again.’
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God said, ‘Here is the sign of the Covenant I make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all generations:
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I set my bow in the clouds and it shall be a sign of the Covenant between me and the earth.
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When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds,
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I will recall the Covenant between myself and you and every living creature of every kind. And so the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all things of flesh.
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When the bow is in the clouds I shall see it and call to mind the lasting Covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is found on the earth.’
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God said to Noah, ‘This is the sign of the Covenant I have established between myself and every living thing that is found on the earth.
Noah and his sons
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The sons of Noah who went out from the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth; Ham is the ancestor of the Canaanites.
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These three were Noah’s sons, and from these the whole earth was peopled.
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Noah, a tiller of the soil, was the first to plant the vine.
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He drank some of the wine, and while he was drunk he uncovered himself inside his tent.
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Ham, Canaan’s ancestor, saw his father’s nakedness, and told his two brothers outside.
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Shem and Japheth took a cloak and they both put it over their shoulders, and walking backwards, covered their father’s nakedness; they kept their faces turned away, and did not see their father’s nakedness.
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When Noah awoke from his stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.
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And he said: ‘Accursed be Canaan. He shall be his brothers’ meanest slave.’
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He added: ‘Blessed be Yahweh, God of Shem, let Canaan be his slave!
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May God extend Japheth, may he live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave!’
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After the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty years.
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In all, Noah’s life lasted nine hundred and fifty years; then he died.
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