Chapter 9

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth;

2 Let all the beasts of the earth, and all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, and all that moveth on the earth, and all the fish of the sea, fear you, and tremble at you: into your hands they have been delivered.

3 Everything that moves, that lives, shall be your food; as herbs I give you everything;

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.