Genesis 8:20–9:9

²⁰And Noah buildeth an altar to Jehovah, and taketh of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and causeth burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar; ²¹and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, ‘I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done; ²²during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.’

Chapter 9

¹And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth; ²and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea—into your hand they have been given. ³Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole; ⁴only flesh in its life—its blood—ye do not eat.

⁵‘And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man’s brother I require the life of man; ⁶whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man. ⁷And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.’

⁸And God speaketh unto Noah, and unto his sons with him, saying, ⁹‘And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,