Genesis 8:20-9:17 — Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh’s Covenant with Noah

²⁰Then Noah built ^aan altar to Yahweh and took of every ^bclean animal and of every clean bird and offered ^cburnt offerings on the altar. ²¹And Yahweh ^asmelled the ¹soothing aroma; and Yahweh said ²to Himself, “I will never again ^bcurse the ground because of man, for ^cthe ³intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; ^dand I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

²²“While all the days of the earth remain,Seedtime and harvest,And cold and heat,And ^asummer and winter,And ^bday and nightShall not cease.”

9And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “^aBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ²“And the fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the ¹sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. ³“Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; ^aas with the green plant, I give all to you. ⁴“However, flesh with its life, that is, ^aits blood, you shall not eat. ⁵“Surely I will require ¹^,^ayour lifeblood; ²^,^bfrom every living thing I will require it. And ³from every man, ⁴from each man’s brother I will require the life of man.

⁶“^aWhoever sheds man’s blood,By man his blood shall be shed,For ^bin the image of GodHe made man.⁷“As for you, ^abe fruitful and multiply;¹Swarm on the earth and multiply in it.”

⁸Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹“As for Me, behold, ^aI establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you; ¹⁰and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. ¹¹“Indeed I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall ^anever again be cut off by the water of the flood, ^band there shall never again be a flood to destroy the earth.” ¹²Then God said, “This is ^athe sign of the covenant which I am giving to be between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for ¹all successive generations; ¹³I put My ^abow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. ¹⁴“And it will be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, ¹⁵and ^aI will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and ^bnever again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶“So the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the ^aeverlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” ¹⁷And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”