New American Standard Bible 2020

Genesis 9:1-7

1Then 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 animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you. 3Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, 2as I gave the green plant. 4But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, 3its blood. 5I certainly will require 4 5your lifeblood; 6 7from every animal I will require it. And 8from every person, 9from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.6 10Whoever sheds human blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For 11in the image of God He made mankind.7As for you, 12be fruitful and multiply; 13Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

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Notes

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

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