Genesis 9:1-7
Covenant of the Rainbow
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “(A)Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
2 The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the (a)sky; 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; I give all to you, (B)as I gave the green plant.
4 Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, (C)its blood.
5 Surely I will require (b)(D)your lifeblood; (c)(E)from every beast I will require it. And (d)from every man, (e)from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
Footnotes:
a.
Genesis 9:2: ['Lit ', heavens]
b.
Genesis 9:5: ['Lit ', your blood of your lives]
c.
Genesis 9:5: ['Lit ', from the hand of]
d.
Genesis 9:5: ['Lit ', from the hand of]
e.
Genesis 9:5: ['Lit ', from the hand of]
f.
Genesis 9:7: ['Lit ', Swarm in the earth]