8:22 “While the earth continues to exist, ⁸ 

planting time ⁹  and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

and day and night will not cease.”

9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 9:2 Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. ¹⁰  Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority. ¹¹  9:3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. ¹²  As I gave you ¹³  the green plants, I now give ¹⁴  you everything.

9:4 But ¹⁵  you must not eat meat ¹⁶  with its life (that is, ¹⁷  its blood) in it. ¹⁸  9:5 For your lifeblood ¹⁹  I will surely exact punishment, ²⁰  from ²¹  every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person ²²  I will exact punishment for the life of the individual ²³  since the man was his relative. ²⁴ 

9:6 “Whoever sheds human blood, ²⁵ 

by other humans ²⁶ 

must his blood be shed;

for in God’s image ²⁷ 

God ²⁸  has made humankind.”

9:7 But as for you, ²⁹  be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

9:8 God said to Noah and his sons, ³⁰  9:9 “Look! I now confirm ³¹  my covenant with you and your descendants after you ³²  9:10 and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you – every living creature of the earth. ³³  9:11 I confirm ³⁴  my covenant with you: Never again will all living things ³⁵  be wiped out ³⁶  by the waters of a flood; ³⁷  never again will a flood destroy the earth.”

9:12 And God said, “This is the guarantee ³⁸  of the covenant I am making ³⁹  with you ⁴⁰  and every living creature with you, a covenant ⁴¹  for all subsequent ⁴²  generations: 9:13 I will place ⁴³  my rainbow ⁴⁴  in the clouds, and it will become ⁴⁵  a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth. 9:14 Whenever ⁴⁶  I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 9:15 then I will remember my covenant with you ⁴⁷  and with all living creatures of all kinds. ⁴⁸  Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy ⁴⁹  all living things. ⁵⁰  9:16 When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember ⁵¹  the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

9:17 So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things ⁵²  that are on the earth.”