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to provide him with food, and some for his pleasure, and some for the names to the glorification of his Creator so that he might know them, even as David " And Thou hast set everything under his saith, feet" x for his sake they were created, and for his sake they were destroyed, with the exception of Eight ; Souls, and seven of every kind of clean beasts and creeping things, and two of every kind of unclean beast and creeping thing. 9. CONCERNING THE COVENANT OF NOAH And then Noah the righteous man died, and Shem wisdom and reigned in blessed by Noah, saying, righteousness, for he was Be God to thy brother." " And to Ham he said, " Be servant to thy brother." And he said unto Japhet, " Be thou servant to Shem my heir, and be thou subject unto him." 2 And again, after the Flood, the Devil, our Enemy, did not cease from his hostility against the children of Noah, but stirred up Canaan, the son of Ham, and he became the violent tyrant (or usurper) who rent the kingdom from Now they had divided the earth and Noah had made them swear by the among them, Name of his God that they would not encroach on each other's boundaries, and would not eat the beast that had died of itself or had been rent [by wild animals], and that they would not cultivate harlotry against the law, lest God should again become angry with them and punish them with a Flood. And as for Noah, he humbled himself, and offered up sacrifice, and he cried out, and groaned, and wept. And God " If held converse with Noah, who said [unto Him], Thou wilt destroy the earth a second time with a Flood, blot Thou me out with those who are to perish." And God said unto him, " I will make a covenant with thee that thou shalt tell thy children they shall not eat the children of Shem. 1 Psalm viii, 6. 6 8 Compare Genesis ix, 25-27.