Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 9

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Then God said, ‘I will show you clearly that I have made this covenant with you, and with every living animal. I will keep this promise for ever, for as long as people live on the earth. I have put my rainbow among the clouds in the sky. It will show you clearly that I have made this covenant with everything on the earth.

When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember my covenant. It is a promise that I have made with every kind of living thing on the earth.’

God made people so that they were like himself. So if anyone kills a human, another human must kill him.

God blessed Noah and his sons. He said to them, ‘Give birth to many children so that you become very many people. Your descendants will live all over the earth.

You may now eat anything that lives and moves. Before, I gave you the green plants to eat. Now I give you everything to eat as your food.

All the animals and all the birds will be afraid of you. You have authority over them. You also have authority over all the living things that move across the ground and all the fish in the sea.

But as for you, you should give birth to many children so that you become very many people. There will be many people and they will live all over the earth.’