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Genesis 9:5-14 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

5. Indeed for your own lifeblood I will demand an accounting: from every animal I will demand it, and from a human being, each one for the blood of another, I will demand an accounting for human life.

6. Anyone who sheds the blood of a human being,by a human being shall that one’s blood be shed;For in the image of Godhave human beings been made.

7. Be fertile, then, and multiply; abound on earth and subdue it.

8. God said to Noah and to his sons with him:

9. See, I am now establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you

10. and with every living creature that was with you: the birds, the tame animals, and all the wild animals that were with you—all that came out of the ark.

11. I will establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all creatures be destroyed by the waters of a flood; there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth.

12. God said: This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come:

13. I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

14. When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds,

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