Genesis 9:1-13 ▼

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

2 And the fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.

3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; as with the green plant, I give all to you.

4 However, flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

5 Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every living thing I will require it. And from every man, from each man’s brother I will require the life of man.

6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.

7 As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Swarm on the earth and multiply in it.”

8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

9 “As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you;

10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

11 Indeed I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, and there shall never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

12 Then God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am giving to be between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;

13 I put My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.