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Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:

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.

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.

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.

And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.

May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.

But Melchisedech, the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God,

Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God, who created heaven and earth.

And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection, the enemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.

And he answered him: I lift up my hand to the Lord God the most high, the possessor of heaven and earth,

And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.

Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?

That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.

And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the hinder parts of him that seeth me.

And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.