Genesis 9:3-11
New American Standard Bible
3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, (A)as I gave the green plant. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, (B)its blood. 5 I certainly will require [a](C)your lifeblood; [b](D)from every animal I will require it. And [c]from every person, [d]from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.
6 (E)Whoever sheds human blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For (F)in the image of God
He made mankind.
7 As for you, (G)be fruitful and multiply;
[e]Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9 “Now behold, (H)I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your [f]descendants after you; 10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth. 11 I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall (I)never again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, (J)nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
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- Genesis 9:5 Lit your blood of your lives
- Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of
- Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of
- Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of
- Genesis 9:7 Lit Swarm in the earth
- Genesis 9:9 Lit seed
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