Genesis 9:1-3

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God’s Covenant With Noah

9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.^(A) ²The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.^(B) ³Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.^(C) Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.^(D)

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Isaiah 11:6-9

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⁶The wolf will live with the lamb,^(A)
    the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling^[a] together;
    and a little child will lead them.
⁷The cow will feed with the bear,
    their young will lie down together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox.^(B)
⁸The infant^(C) will play near the cobra’s den,
    and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s^(D) nest.
⁹They will neither harm nor destroy^(E)
    on all my holy mountain,^(F)
for the earth^(G) will be filled with the knowledge^(H) of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 11:6 Hebrew; Septuagint lion will feed

Romans 8:20-21

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²⁰For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,^(A) in hope ²¹that^[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay^(B) and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.^(C)