*God tells the people and animals to go make babies and fill the earth back up, which they must have done with extraordinary enthusiasm.
*Now he sanctions the eating of flesh as as well as vegetation, and animals begin to fear for their lives. However, there will be no eating flesh with blood in it. No rare steaks from now on.
*After we find out there is no penalty for killing animals, we see the introduction of the death penalty for killing a human. Man and beast will be executed for this crime, because people are like God. At least man is.
*Now God promises never to destroy the whole earth again, with a flood. The prismatic effect of light through water droplets, will remind God of this promise. Otherwise, he would forget.
*Then Noah plants a vinyard with grape cuttings that he carried in the ark for a year. He tends the grape plants for the approximately 3 years it takes to get a good crop for wine making. Then he squeezes the juice from the grapes, stores it, and lets it ferment, so he can get drunk.
*While Noah is drunk, Ham sees his father naked so his son Cannan is cursed as a punishment, introducing the justification for slavery into the world. All the descendants of Shem and Japheth can just point to this verse and the descendants of Canaan will pay for Ham's indescretion. This will come in handy later when the Israelites want to take over the land of Canaan.
*Noah lives to the ripe old age of 950, which would be about 2,000 B.C.E. by Bishop Ussher's chronology. At that time the world was amazingly full of people, even as far away as India and China. You would never have known there was a flood if the Bible didn't say so.
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