¹ Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ² Genesis 9:2 “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 Genesis 9:3 “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant. ⁴ Genesis 9:4 “Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. ⁵ Genesis 9:5 “Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man. ⁶ Genesis 9:6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man. ⁷ Genesis 9:7 “As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.” ⁸ Genesis 9:8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹ Genesis 9:9 “Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; ¹⁰ Genesis 9:10 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 Genesis 9:11 “I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.” ¹² Genesis 9:12 God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; ¹³ Genesis 9:13 I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. ¹⁴ Genesis 9:14 “It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, ¹⁵ Genesis 9:15 and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶ Genesis 9:16 “When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” ¹⁷ Genesis 9:17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”