9 ¹ GOD BLESSED NOAH and his sons and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase and fill the earth. 9 ² The fear and dread of you shall fall upon all wild animals on earth, on all birds of heaven, on everything that moves upon the ground and all fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. 9 ³ Every creature that lives and moves shall be food for you; I give you them all, as once I gave you all green plants. 9 ⁴ But you must not eat the flesh with the life, which is the blood, still in it. 9 ⁵ And further, for your life-blood I will demand satisfaction; from every animal I will require it, and from a man also I will require satisfaction for the death of his fellow-man.
9 ⁶ He that sheds the blood of a man,
for that man his blood shall be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made man. 9 ⁷ But you must be fruitful and increase, swarm throughout the earth and rule prob. rdg, cp 1. 28, Heb. increase over it.

9 ⁸ God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 ⁹ 'I now make my covenant with you and with your descendants after you, 9 ¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you, all birds and cattle, all the wild animals with you on earth, all that have come out of the ark. 9 ¹¹ I will make my covenant with you: never again shall all living creatures be destroyed by the waters of the flood, never again shall there be a flood to lay waste the earth.' 9 ¹² God said, 'This is the sign of the covenant which I establish between myself and you and every living creature with you, to endless generations: 9 ¹³ My bow I set in the cloud,
sign of the covenant
between myself and earth.
9 ¹⁴ When I cloud the sky over the earth,
the bow shall be seen in the cloud.
9 ¹⁵ Then will I remember the covenant which I have made between myself and you and living things of every kind. Never again shall the waters become a flood to destroy all living creatures. 9 ¹⁶ The bow shall be in the cloud; when I see it, it will remind me of the everlasting covenant between God and living things on earth of every kind.' 9 ¹⁷ God said to Noah, 'This is the sign of the covenant which I make between myself and all that lives on earth.'