Genesis 9:1-13 ▼

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

2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every wild animal of the earth, and on every tame animal of the earth, and on every flying creature of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave the green plants, I now give you everything.

4 But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

5 And surely I will require a reckoning for your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it, and from humans. From every human being I will require it for the life of his fellow human being.

6 Whoever takes a human life, by a human will his life be taken, for God made humankind in his own image.

7 And as for you, be fruitful and multiply, and increase abundantly on the earth, and subdue it.|

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

9 |And as for me, look, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

10 and with every living creature that is with you: the flying creatures, and the tame animals, and every wild animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the vessel.

11 I will establish my covenant with you; and all flesh will never again be cut off by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth.|

12 God said, |This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.