Genesis 8:20–9:9

Yahweh’s Covenant with Noah

²⁰Then Noah built ^aan altar to Yahweh and took of every ^bclean animal and of every clean bird and offered ^cburnt offerings on the altar.

²¹And Yahweh ^asmelled the ¹soothing aroma; and Yahweh said ²to Himself, “I will never again ^bcurse the ground because of man, for ^cthe ³intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; ^dand I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

²²“While all the days of the earth remain,

Seedtime and harvest,

And cold and heat,

And ^asummer and winter,

And ^bday and night

Shall not cease.”

CHAPTER 9

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “^aBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

²“And the fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the ¹sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.

³“Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; ^aas with the green plant, I give all to you.

⁴“However, flesh with its life, that is, ^aits blood, you shall not eat.

⁵“Surely I will require ^1ayour lifeblood; ^2bfrom every living thing I will require it. And ³from every man, ⁴from each man’s brother I will require the life of man.

⁶“^aWhoever sheds man’s blood,

By man his blood shall be shed,

For ^bin the image of God

He made man.

⁷“As for you, ^abe fruitful and multiply;

¹Swarm on the earth and multiply in it.”

⁸Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

⁹“As for Me, behold, ^aI establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you;