New American Standard Bible 1995

Genesis 9:1-7

1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “1Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the 2sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. 3Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, 3as I gave the green plant. 4Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, 4its blood. 5Surely I will require 5 6your lifeblood; 7 8from every beast I will require it. And 9from every man, 10from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.6 11Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For 12in the image of God He made man.7As for you, 13be fruitful and multiply; 14Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

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Notes

1. Genesis 9:1 Gen 1:28; 9:7 ↩
2. Genesis 9:2 Lit heavens ↩
3. Genesis 9:3 Gen 1:29 ↩
4. Genesis 9:4 Lev 7:26f; 17:10-16; 19:26; Deut 12:16, 23; 15:23; 1 Sam 14:34; Acts 15:20, 29 ↩
5. Genesis 9:5 Lit your blood of your lives ↩
6. Genesis 9:5 Ex 20:13; 21:12 ↩
7. Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of ↩
8. Genesis 9:5 Ex 21:28, 29 ↩
9. Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of ↩
10. Genesis 9:5 Lit from the hand of ↩
11. Genesis 9:6 Ex 21:12-14; Lev 24:17; Num 35:33; Matt 26:52 ↩
12. Genesis 9:6 Gen 1:26, 27 ↩
13. Genesis 9:7 Gen 9:1 ↩
14. Genesis 9:7 Lit Swarm in the earth ↩

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