1 And Elohim blessed Rest and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
2 And let a dreadful fear of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moves on the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every living creature shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.
4 Only, the flesh with its life, its lifes blood, you shall not eat.
5 I will require an accounting of your lifes blood: at the hand of every animal I will require it, and at the hand of Man, regarding his fellow man, I will require an accounting of the life of Man.
6 Who ever sheds Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of Elohim he has made Man.
7 And you, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it."
8 And Elohim spoke to Rest, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 "Look, I establish my contract with you, and with your seed after you;
10 and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the box-- every animal of the earth.
11 And I establish my contract with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth."
12 And Elohim said, "This is the sign of the contract that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations:
13 I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the contract between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,
15 and I will remember my contract which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting contract between Elohim and every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth."
17 And Elohim said to Rest, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."
18 And the sons of Rest who went out of the box were Name, and Warm, and Spacious. And Warm is the ancestor of those of Canaan, the Low-Landers.
19 These three are the sons of Rest; and from these was the population of the whole earth spread abroad.
20 And Rest began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard.
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered himself in his tent.
22 And Warm the father of Canaan, Low-Lander, enjoyed his fathers nakedness, having experience with his father, and told his two brothers outside.
23 And Name and Spacious took the upper garment and both laid it upon their shoulders, and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned away, that they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Rest awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest son had done to him.
25 And he said, "Cursed be Low-Lander ; Let him be a slave of slaves to his brothers.
26 And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, the Elohim of Name, And let Low-Lander be his slave.
27 Let Elohim enlarge Spacious, and let him dwell in the tents of Name, And let Low-Lander be his slave."
28 And Rest lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all the days of Rest were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.
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