²⁰Noah built an altar to the Lord. On it he made a burnt offering of each type of clean^aanimal and clean bird. ²¹The Lord smelled the soothing aroma. He said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, even though from birth their hearts are set on nothing but evil. I will never again kill every living creature as I have just done.

²²As long as the earth exists,

planting and harvesting,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

day and night

will never stop.”

9TH CHAPTER

God Blesses Noah and His Sons

¹God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fertile, increase in number, and fill the earth. ²All the wild animals and all the birds will fear you and be terrified of you. Every creature that crawls on the ground and all the fish in the sea have been put under your control. ³Everything that lives and moves will be your food. I gave you green plants as food; I now give you everything else.

⁴“But you are not to eat meat with blood in it. (Blood is life.) ⁵In addition, I will demand your blood for your life. I will demand it from any animal or from any person. I will demand the life of any person ⸤who kills⸥ another person.

⁶Whoever sheds human blood,

by humans his blood will be shed,

because in the image of God, God made humans.

⁷Be fertile, and increase in number. Spread over the earth, and increase.”

God’s Promise—the Sign of the Rainbow

⁸God also said to Noah and his sons, ⁹“I am going to make my promise^ato you, your descendants,

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Genesis 8:22: While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease…

Footnotes

a 8:20 “Clean” refers to anything that is presentable to God.
a 9:9 Or “covenant.”