Genesis 9:1-9

Devotionals, Articles, and Bible Study Resources on Genesis 9:1-9

1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
2The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
3Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
4But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
5And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
6Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man his blood will be shed;
for in His own image
God has made mankind.
7But as for you,
be fruitful and multiply;
spread out across the earth
and multiply upon it.”
8Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
9“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
— Genesis 9:1-9

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