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God blessed Noah and his sons and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.
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All the animals, birds, and fish will live in fear of you. They are all placed under your power.
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Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food.
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The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood.
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If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life.
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Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.
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"You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth."
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God said to Noah and his sons,
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"I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants,
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and with all living beings---all birds and all animals---everything that came out of the boat with you.
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With these words I make my covenant with you: I promise that never again will all living beings be destroyed by a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.
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As a sign of this everlasting covenant which I am making with you and with all living beings,
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I am putting my bow in the clouds. It will be the sign of my covenant with the world.
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Whenever I cover the sky with clouds and the rainbow appears,
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I will remember my promise to you and to all the animals that a flood will never again destroy all living beings.
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When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between me and all living beings on earth.
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That is the sign of the promise which I am making to all living beings."
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The sons of Noah who went out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
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These three sons of Noah were the ancestors of all the people on earth.
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Noah, who was a farmer, was the first man to plant a vineyard.
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After he drank some of the wine, he became drunk, took off his clothes, and lay naked in his tent.
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When Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked, he went out and told his two brothers.
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Then Shem and Japheth took a robe and held it behind them on their shoulders. They walked backward into the tent and covered their father, keeping their faces turned away so as not to see him naked.
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When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
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he said, "A curse on Canaan! He will be a slave to his brothers.
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Give praise to the LORD, the God of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Shem.
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May God cause Japheth to increase! May his descendants live with the people of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Japheth."
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After the flood Noah lived 350 years
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and died at the age of 950.
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These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. These three had sons after the flood.
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The sons of Japheth---Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras---were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
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The descendants of Gomer were the people of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
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The descendants of Javan were the people of Elishah, Spain, Cyprus, and Rhodes;
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they were the ancestors of the people who live along the coast and on the islands. These are the descendants of Japheth, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
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The sons of Ham---Cush, Egypt, Libya, and Canaan---were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
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The descendants of Cush were the people of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were the people of Sheba and Dedan.
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Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the world's first great conqueror.
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By the LORD's help he was a great hunter, and that is why people say, "May the LORD make you as great a hunter as Nimrod!"
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At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.
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From that land he went to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
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and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
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The descendants of Egypt were the people of Lydia, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,
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Pathrus, Casluh, and of Crete, from whom the Philistines are descended.
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Canaan's sons---Sidon, the oldest, and Heth---were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
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Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
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the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
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the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. The different tribes of the Canaanites spread out,
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until the Canaanite borders reached from Sidon southward to Gerar near Gaza, and eastward to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim near Lasha.
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These are the descendants of Ham, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
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Shem, the older brother of Japheth, was the ancestor of all the Hebrews.
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Shem's sons---Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram---were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
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The descendants of Aram were the people of Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshek.
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Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, who was the father of Eber.
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Eber had two sons: one was named Peleg, because during his time the people of the world were divided; and the other was named Joktan.
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The descendants of Joktan were the people of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
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Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
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Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of them were descended from Joktan.
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The land in which they lived extended from Mesha to Sephar in the eastern hill country.
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These are the descendants of Shem, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
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All these peoples are the descendants of Noah, nation by nation, according to their different lines of descent. After the flood all the nations of the earth were descended from the sons of Noah.
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At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words.
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As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there.
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They said to one another, "Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard." So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together.
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They said, "Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."
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Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which they had built,
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and he said, "Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want!
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Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other."
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So the LORD scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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The city was called Babylon, because there the LORD mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.
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These are the descendants of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he had a son, Arpachshad.
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After that, he lived another 500 years and had other children.
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When Arpachshad was 35 years old, he had a son, Shelah;
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after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.
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When Shelah was 30 years old, he had a son, Eber;
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after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.
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When Eber was 34 years old, he had a son, Peleg;
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after that, he lived another 430 years and had other children.
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When Peleg was 30 years old, he had a son, Reu;
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after that, he lived another 209 years and had other children.
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When Reu was 32 years old, he had a son, Serug;
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after that, he lived another 207 years and had other children.
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When Serug was 30 years old, he had a son, Nahor;
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after that, he lived another 200 years and had other children.
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When Nahor was 29 years old, he had a son, Terah;
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after that, he lived another 119 years and had other children.
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After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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These are the descendants of Terah, who was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot,
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and Haran died in his hometown of Ur in Babylonia, while his father was still living.
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Abram married Sarai, and Nahor married Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.
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Sarai was not able to have children.
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Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, Abram's wife, and with them he left the city of Ur in Babylonia to go to the land of Canaan. They went as far as Haran and settled there.
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Terah died there at the age of 205.
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Jesus returned from the Jordan full of the Holy Spirit and was led by the Spirit into the desert,
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where he was tempted by the Devil for forty days. In all that time he ate nothing, so that he was hungry when it was over.
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The Devil said to him, "If you are God's Son, order this stone to turn into bread."
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But Jesus answered, "The scripture says, 'Human beings cannot live on bread alone.' "
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Then the Devil took him up and showed him in a second all the kingdoms of the world.
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"I will give you all this power and all this wealth," the Devil told him. "It has all been handed over to me, and I can give it to anyone I choose.
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All this will be yours, then, if you worship me."
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Jesus answered, "The scripture says, 'Worship the Lord your God and serve only him!' "
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Then the Devil took him to Jerusalem and set him on the highest point of the Temple, and said to him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down from here.
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For the scripture says, 'God will order his angels to take good care of you.'
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It also says, 'They will hold you up with their hands so that not even your feet will be hurt on the stones.' "
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But Jesus answered, "The scripture says, 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' "
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When the Devil finished tempting Jesus in every way, he left him for a while.
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Then Jesus returned to Galilee, and the power of the Holy Spirit was with him. The news about him spread throughout all that territory.
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He taught in the synagogues and was praised by everyone.
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Then Jesus went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went as usual to the synagogue. He stood up to read the Scriptures
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and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it is written,
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"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed
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and announce that the time has come when the Lord will save his people."
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Jesus rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. All the people in the synagogue had their eyes fixed on him,
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as he said to them, "This passage of scripture has come true today, as you heard it being read."
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They were all well impressed with him and marveled at the eloquent words that he spoke. They said, "Isn't he the son of Joseph?"
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He said to them, "I am sure that you will quote this proverb to me, 'Doctor, heal yourself.' You will also tell me to do here in my hometown the same things you heard were done in Capernaum.
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I tell you this," Jesus added, "prophets are never welcomed in their hometown.
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Listen to me: it is true that there were many widows in Israel during the time of Elijah, when there was no rain for three and a half years and a severe famine spread throughout the whole land.
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Yet Elijah was not sent to anyone in Israel, but only to a widow living in Zarephath in the territory of Sidon.
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And there were many people suffering from a dreaded skin disease who lived in Israel during the time of the prophet Elisha; yet not one of them was healed, but only Naaman the Syrian."
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When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were filled with anger.
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They rose up, dragged Jesus out of town, and took him to the top of the hill on which their town was built. They meant to throw him over the cliff,
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but he walked through the middle of the crowd and went his way.
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Then Jesus went to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, where he taught the people on the Sabbath.
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They were all amazed at the way he taught, because he spoke with authority.
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In the synagogue was a man who had the spirit of an evil demon in him; he screamed out in a loud voice,
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"Ah! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Are you here to destroy us? I know who you are: you are God's holy messenger!"
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Jesus ordered the spirit, "Be quiet and come out of the man!" The demon threw the man down in front of them and went out of him without doing him any harm.
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The people were all amazed and said to one another, "What kind of words are these? With authority and power this man gives orders to the evil spirits, and they come out!"
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And the report about Jesus spread everywhere in that region.
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Jesus left the synagogue and went to Simon's home. Simon's mother-in-law was sick with a high fever, and they spoke to Jesus about her.
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He went and stood at her bedside and ordered the fever to leave her. The fever left her, and she got up at once and began to wait on them.
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After sunset all who had friends who were sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus; he placed his hands on every one of them and healed them all.
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Demons also went out from many people, screaming, "You are the Son of God!" Jesus gave the demons an order and would not let them speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.
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At daybreak Jesus left the town and went off to a lonely place. The people started looking for him, and when they found him, they tried to keep him from leaving.
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But he said to them, "I must preach the Good News about the Kingdom of God in other towns also, because that is what God sent me to do."
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So he preached in the synagogues throughout the country.
