Genesis 9

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

2 Ref And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens; With all wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered.

3 Ref Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; As the green herb have I given you all.

4 Ref But flesh with the life thereof, `which is' the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

5 Ref And surely your blood, `the blood' of your lives, will I require; At the hand of every beast will I require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.

6 Ref Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God made he man.

7 Ref And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

9 Ref And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

10 Ref and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

11 Ref And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

12 Ref And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

13 Ref I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

15 Ref and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 Ref And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

18 Ref And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

19 Ref These three were the sons of Noah: and of these was the whole earth overspread.

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