* For verely the bloude of yow wherein youre lyves are wyll I requyre:
Euẽ of the hande of all beastes wyll I requyre it/ And of the hande of
man and of the hand off euery mannes brother/ wyll I requyre the lyfe
of man: so y^t he which shedeth mannes bloude/ shall haue hys bloud
shed by man agayne: for God made man after his awne lyckness. See that
ye encrease/ and waxe/ and be occupyde vppon the erth/ & multiplye
therein.
Farthermore God spake vnto Noe & to hys sonnes wyth hym saynge: see/ I
make my bõd wyth you and youre seed after you/ and wyth all lyvynge
thinge that is wyth you: both foule and catell/ and all maner beste of
the erth that is wyth yow/ of all that commeth out of the arke/ what
soeuer beste of the erth it be.
I make my bonde wyth yow/ that hence forth all flesh shall not be
destroyed wyth y^e waters of any floud/ ãd y^t hence forth there shall
not be a floud to destroy the erth.
And God sayd. This is the token of my bõde which I make betwene me and
yow/ ãd betwene all lyvynge thyng that is with yow for ever: I wyll
sette my bowe in the cloudes/ and it shall be a sygne of the
appoyntment made betwene me and the erth: So that when I bryng in
cloudes vpõ y^e erth/ the bowe shall appere in y^e cloudes. And than
wyll I thynke vppon my testament which I haue made betwene me and yow/
and all that lyveth what soeuer flesh it be. So that henceforth there
shall be no more waters to make a floud to destroy all flesh.
The bowe shalbe in the cloudes/ and I wyll loke vpon it/ to remembre
the euerlastynge testament betwene God and all the lyveth vppon the
erth/ what soeuer flesh it be. And God sayd vnto Noe: This is the
sygne of the testament which I have made betwene me and all flesh y^t
is on the erth.
The sonnes of Noe that came out of the arke were: Sem/ Ham and
Iapheth. And Ham he is the father of Canaã. These are the .iij.
sonnes of Noe/ and of these was all the world overspred.
And Noe beynge an husbãd man/ went furth and planted a vyneyarde and
drancke of the wyne and was droncke/ and laye vncouered in the myddest
of his tẽt. And Ham the father of Canaan sawe his fathers prevytees/ &
tolde his ij. brethren that were wythout. And Sem and Iapheth toke a
mantell and put it on both there shulders ãd went backward/ ãd covered
there fathers secrets/ but there faces were backward So that they sawe
not there fathers nakydnes. As soone as Noe was awaked frõ his wyne
and wyst what his yongest sonne had done vnto hym/ he sayd: cursed be
Canaan/ ãd a seruante of all seruantes be he to his brethren. And he
sayd: Blessed be the LORde God of Sẽ/ and Canaan be his seruante. God
increase Iapheth that he may dwelle in the tentes of Sem. And Canaan
be their seruante.
And Noe lyved after the floude .iij. hundred and .l. yere: So that all
the dayes of Noe were ix. hundred and .l. yere/ ãd than he dyed.
The .x. Chapter.
These are the generations of the sonnes of Noe: of Sem/ Ham and
Iapheth/ which begat them children after the floude.
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