Genesis 8:20–9:9

²⁰And Noah built an altar to Jehovah; and took of every clean animal, and of all clean fowl, and offered up burnt-offerings on the altar. ²¹And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done. ²²Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

Chapter 9

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ²And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moveth on the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered. ³Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything. ⁴Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat. ⁵And indeed your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of Man, at the hand of each the blood of his brother, will I require the life of Man. ⁶Whoso sheddeth Man’s blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man. ⁷And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.

⁸And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;