²⁰And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said to himself,^p “Never again will I curse^q the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from his youth. Nor will I ever again destroy^r all life as I have done. ²²As long as the earth endures,^s seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.

God’s Covenant with Noah and Humankind

9And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ²And fear of you and dread of you shall be upon every animal of the earth, and on every bird of heaven,^a and on everything that moves upon the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they shall be given. ³Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As I gave the green plants to you, I now give you everything. ⁴Only you shall not eat raw flesh with blood in it.^b ⁵And^c your lifeblood^d I will require; from every animal^e I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of each man to his brother I will require the life of humankind.

⁶“As for the one shedding the blood of humankind,

by humankind his blood shall be shed,

for God made humankind in his own image.

⁷“And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it.” ⁸And God said to Noah and to his sons with him, ⁹“As for me, behold, I am establishing my covenant with you and with your seed after you,

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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

pLiterally “to his heart”
qLiterally “I will not add to curse again”
rLiterally “And I will not add again to destroy”
sLiterally “While all the days of the earth”
aOr “the sky”
bLiterally “flesh with its life, its blood”
cOr “only”; the same word that occurs at the beginning of v. 4
dLiterally “your blood belonging to your life”
eLiterally “from the hand of every animal”