Genesis 9:1-13 ▼

1 And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

2 and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every bird of the heavens, on all that creeps on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea—into your hand they have been given.

3 Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

4 only flesh in its life—its blood—you do not eat.

5 And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man’s brother I require the life of man;

6 whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.

7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.”

8 And God speaks to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

9 “And I, behold, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

10 and with every living creature which [is] with you, among bird, among livestock, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going out of the Ark—to every beast of the earth.

11 And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not cut off anymore by waters of a flood, and there is not a flood to destroy the earth anymore.”

12 And God says, “This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that [is] with you, to continuous generations;

13 My bow I have given in the cloud, and it has been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;