20 И устроил Ной жертвенник Господу; и взял из всякого скота чистого и из всех птиц чистых и принес во всесожжение на жертвеннике.

21 И обонял Господь приятное благоухание, и сказал Господь [Бог] в сердце Своем: не буду больше проклинать землю за человека, потому что помышление сердца человеческого — зло от юности его; и не буду больше поражать всего живущего, как Я сделал:

22 впредь во все дни земли сеяние и жатва, холод и зной, лето и зима, день и ночь не прекратятся.

Глава 9

1 И благословил Бог Ноя и сынов его и сказал им: плодитесь и размножайтесь, и наполняйте землю [и обладайте ею];

2 да страшатся и да трепещут вас все звери земные, [и весь скот земной,] и все птицы небесные, все, что движется на земле, и все рыбы морские: в ваши руки отданы они;

3 все движущееся, что живет, будет вам в пищу; как зелень травную даю вам все;

4 Only flesh with its life, with its blood, ye shall not eat;

5 I will also demand your blood, in which your life is, I will demand it from every beast, I will also demand the life of a man from the hand of man, from the hand of his brother.

6 Whosoever sheds the blood of man, his blood shall be shed by the hand of man: for man is created in the image of God;

7 But ye shall be fruitful and multiply, and spread over the earth, and multiply in it.

8 And God said to Noah, and to his sons with him,

9 Behold, I make my covenant with you, and with your descendants after you,

10 And with every living thing that is with you, with the fowl, and with the cattle, and with every beast of the earth that is with you, with all that came out of the ark, with every living creature of the earth.

11 I make my covenant with you, that all flesh shall no more be destroyed by the waters of the flood, neither shall there be any more flood to desolate the earth.

12 And God said, 'This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you, and between every living soul that is with you throughout the generations for ever.

13 I put my rainbow in the cloud, that it may be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud upon the earth, that a rainbow shall appear in the cloud;

15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and between every living soul in all flesh; and the water shall no more be a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 And there shall be a rainbow in the cloud, and I will see it, and I will remember the everlasting covenant between God [and the earth] and between every living soul in all flesh that is on the earth.

17 And God said to Noah, 'This is the sign of the covenant which I have made between me and every flesh that is on the earth.'