Genesis 9:1-7

God’s Covenant With Noah

1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
2 The 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.
3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.
6 “Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.
7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

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Cross References 11

  • 1. S Genesis 1:22
  • 2. S Genesis 1:26
  • 3. S Genesis 1:29
  • 4. S Acts 10:15; Colossians 2:16
  • 5. Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 17:10-14; Leviticus 19:26; Dt 12:16,23-25; Deuteronomy 15:23; 1 Samuel 14:33; Ezekiel 33:25; Acts 15:20,29
  • 6. Genesis 42:22; Genesis 50:15; 1 Kings 2:32; 2 Chronicles 24:22; Psalms 9:12
  • 7. Exodus 21:28-32
  • 8. Genesis 4:10
  • 9. S Genesis 4:14; Exodus 21:12,14; Leviticus 24:17; S Judges 9:24; S Matthew 26:52
  • 10. S Genesis 1:26
  • 11. S Genesis 1:22
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