Genesis 8:20–9:9

²⁰And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹And the Lord smelled ^g†a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again ^hcurse the ground any more for man’s sake; ^||for the ⁱimagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; ^kneither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. ^22l†While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and ^mday and night shall not cease.

9And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, ^aBe fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. ²And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. ^3bEvery moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the ^cgreen herb have I given you all things. ⁴But flesh with the ^dlife thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. ⁵And surely your blood of your lives will I require; ^eat the hand of every beast will I require it, and ^fat the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. ^6gWhoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: ^hfor in the image of God made he man. ⁷And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

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