Genesis 9:1-7

God's Covenant with Noah

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, _q "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. ² _r The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. ³ _s Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And _t as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. ⁴ But you shall not eat flesh with its _u life, that is, its blood. ⁵ And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: _v from every beast I will require it and _w from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

⁶ _x "Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
_y for God made man in his own image.

⁷ And you, ₁ be fruitful and multiply, teem on the earth and multiply in it."

1. Cross References
   Genesis 1:22
   And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
   Genesis 1:28
   And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
   Genesis 8:17
   Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh - birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth - that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 8:6 - 8
   You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet.
   James 3:7
   For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 12:15
   However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.
   1 Timothy 4:3 - 4
   Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
   
4. Cross References
   Genesis 1:29
   And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
   
5. Cross References
   Leviticus 17:10 - 11
   If any one of the house of Israel or of the str...
   Leviticus 17:14
   For the life of every creature is its blood: it...
   Deuteronomy 12:16
   Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pou...
   Deuteronomy 12:23
   Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for...
   1 Samuel 14:33
   Then they told Saul, "Behold, the people are si...
   Acts 15:20
   But should write to them to abstain from the th...
   Acts 15:29
   That you abstain from what has been sacrificed ...
   
6. Cross References
   Exodus 21:28
   When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.
   
7. Cross References
   Genesis 4:10 - 11
   And the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
   
8. Cross References
   Exodus 21:12
   Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be ...
   Exodus 21:14
   But if a man willfully attacks another to kill ...
   Leviticus 24:17
   Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put ...
   Numbers 35:31
   Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the li...
   Numbers 35:33
   You shall not pollute the land in which you liv...
   Matthew 26:52
   Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back in...
   Revelation 13:10
   If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity ...
   
9. Cross References
   Genesis 1:27
   So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
   Genesis 5:1
   This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
   James 3:9
   With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.