Genesis 9:1-19 ▼

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 dread of you? shall be on every beast of the earth, and on every bird of the heavens, on all that moves on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. Into your? hand they are given—

3 every moving thing that has in it life, for you? it shall be for food; as the green plants, I have given to you? everything.

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

5 And surely your? blood for your? lives I will require; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of the man; from the hand of each man’s brother I will require for the life of the man.

6 Whoever sheds the blood of the man, by the man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He has made the man.

7 And you?, be fruitful and multiply; swarm on the earth and multiply on it.”

8 And God said 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 that is with you?, among the bird, among the livestock, and among every beast of the earth with you?, from all those going out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

11 And I have establishd My covenant with you?, that all flesh shall never again be cut off by the waters of the flood; and there shall never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I am giving between Me, and between you?, and between every living soul that is with you?, for generations everlasting.

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

14 And it shall come to pass in My bringing a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.

15 And I will remember My covenant, that is between Me, and between you?, and between every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and between every living soul of all flesh that is on the earth.”

17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and between all flesh that is on the earth.”

18 And the sons of Noah who went out from the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. And Ham—he was the father of Canaan.

19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from these all the earth was scattered.