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Genesis 9
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1 And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.
2 And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.
3 And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:
4 Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
5 For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.
6 Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.
7 But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.
8 Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:
9 Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:
10 And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds, as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth.
11 I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth.
12 And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.
13 I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth.
14 And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds:
15 And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.
17 And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I have established, between me and all flesh upon the earth.
18 And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.
19 These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.
20 And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.
21 And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.
22 Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.
23 But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
24 And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,
25 He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.
28 And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church
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- Genesis 9:1 in modern BiblesCCC 2417
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- CCC 2417 “God entrusted animals to the stewardship of those whom he created in his own image. Hence it is legitimate to use animals…”
- Genesis 9:2 in modern BiblesCCC 2417
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- CCC 2417 “God entrusted animals to the stewardship of those whom he created in his own image. Hence it is legitimate to use animals…”
- Genesis 9:3 in modern BiblesCCC 2417
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- CCC 2417 “God entrusted animals to the stewardship of those whom he created in his own image. Hence it is legitimate to use animals…”
- Genesis 9:4 in modern BiblesCCC 2417
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- CCC 2417 “God entrusted animals to the stewardship of those whom he created in his own image. Hence it is legitimate to use animals…”
- Genesis 9:5 in modern BiblesCCC 2260
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- CCC 2260 “The covenant between God and mankind is interwoven with reminders of God's gift of human life and man's murderous violence: For your…”
“… when he had slain his brother, "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to Me." And as their blood will be inquired after, He said to those with Noah, "For your blood of your souls will I require, [even] from the hand of all beasts;”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XIV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Genesis 9:6 in modern BiblesCCC 2260
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- CCC 2260 “The covenant between God and mankind is interwoven with reminders of God's gift of human life and man's murderous violence: For your…”
“… when he had slain his brother, "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to Me." And as their blood will be inquired after, He said to those with Noah, "For your blood of your souls will I require, [even] from the hand of all beasts;”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XIV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Genesis 9:8 in modern BiblesCCC 2569
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- CCC 2569 “Prayer is lived in the first place beginning with the realities of creation. the first nine chapters of Genesis describe this relationship…”
- Genesis 9:16 in modern BiblesCCC 58
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- CCC 58 “The covenant with Noah remains in force during the times of the Gentiles, until the universal proclamation of the Gospel. The Bible…”
- Genesis 9:24 in modern Bibles
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“May the Lord enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the houses of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter CXXXIX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Genesis 9:25 in modern Bibles
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“May the Lord enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the houses of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter CXXXIX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Genesis 9:26 in modern Bibles
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“May the Lord enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the houses of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter CXXXIX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Genesis 9:27 in modern Bibles
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“May the Lord enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the houses of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter CXXXIX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“He, appearing in these last times, the chief cornerstone, has gathered into one, and united those that were far off and those that were near; that is, the circumcision and the uncircumcision, enlarging Japhet, and placing him in the dwelling of Shem.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter V. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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