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And Noah builded an altar to Yahweh, - and took of all the clean beasts and of all the clean birds, and caused ascending Sacrifices to go up on the altar.

And Yahweh smelled a satisfying odour, so Yahweh said to himself. I will not, again, curse any more the ground for man's sake, although the device of the heart of man, be wicked from his youth, - neither will I again, any more smite every living thing, as I have done.

During all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

So God blessed Noah and his sons, - and said to them Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth;

and let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every living creature of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, - over everything that moveth along on the ground, and over all the fishes of the sea, - into your hand, have they been given.

As for every moving thing that hath life, yours, shall it be, for food, - Like the green herb, have I given you all things.

Yet flesh with the life thereof, the bleed thereof, shall ye not eat;

And surely your blood, of your lives, will I require, From the hand of every living creature, will I require it, - and from the hand of man From the hand of each ones brother, will I require the life of man:

He that sheddeth man's blood, by man, shall his blood be shed, - For, in the image of God, made he man.

Ye, therefore, be fruitful and multiply, swarm in the earth and multiply therein.

And God spake unto Noah, and unto his sons with him saying:

I, therefore, behold me! establishing my covenant with you, - and with your seed after you;

and with every living soul that is with you, of birds, of tame-beasts and of all wild-beasts of the earth that are with you, - of all coming forth out of the ark, even to all wild-beasts of the earth;

yea, I will establish my covenant with you, so that all flesh shall not be cut off any more, by reason of the waters of a flood, - neither shall there he any more a flood to destroy the earth.

And God said, This, is the sign of the covenant which I am granting betwixt me and you, and every living soul that is with you, - to age-abiding generations: -

My bow, have I set in the cloud, - and it shall be for a sign of a covenant, betwixt me and the earth;

and it shall be when I draw a veil of cloud over the earth, - and the bow in the cloud appeareth,

then will I remember my covenant which is betwixt me and you, and every living soul among all flesh, - that the waters may no more become a flood, to destroy all flesh:

so the bow shall be in the cloud, - and I will behold it, to remember an age-abiding covenant, between God, and every living soul among all flesh that is on the earth.

And God said unto Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which have established, between me and all flesh that is on the earth.