Genesis 9:1-17
The Covenant of the Rainbow

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

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2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

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3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

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4 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

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5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

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

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

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

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

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10 And with every living creature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

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

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12 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:

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

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

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15 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.

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16 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.

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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.

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