Genesis 9:2

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Summary

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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God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

As they journeyed, there was

a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

“You will laugh at violence and famine,

And you will not be afraid of wild beasts.

What is man that You take thought of him,

And the son of man that You care for him?

You appoint darkness and it becomes night,
In which all the beasts of the forest prowl about.

“I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

“In that day I will also make a covenant for them
With the beasts of the field,
The birds of the sky
And the creeping things of the ground.
And I will

abolish the bow, the sword and war from the land,

And will make them lie down in safety.

For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race.