Genesis 9:1-17 And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth ² The feare of you, & the dread of you, shalbe vpon euery beast of the earth, and vpon euery foule of the ayre, vpon al that moueth vpon the earth, and vpon all the fishes of the sea, into your hande are they deliuered ³ Euery thyng that moueth it selfe, and that liueth, shall be meate for you, euen as the greene hearbe haue I geue you all thinges ⁴ But flesh in the life therof [which is] the blood therof, shall ye not eate ⁵ And surely your blood of your lyues wyl I require: at the hande of euery beast wyll I require it, and at the hand of man, at the hande of mans brother wyll I require the life of man ⁶ Who so sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man ⁷ But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein ⁸ God spake also vnto Noah, & to his sonnes with hym, saying ⁹ Beholde, I, euen I establishe my couenaunt with you, and with your seede after you ¹⁰ And with euery liuing creature that is with you, in foule, in cattell, in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you, of all that go out of the arke, whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be ¹¹ And my couenaunt I make with you, that from hencefoorth euery fleshe be not rooted out with the waters of a fludde, neither shall there be a fludde to destroy the earth any more ¹² And God sayde: this is the token of the couenaut which I make betweene me and you, and euery lyuyng creature that is with you, for euer ¹³ I do set my bowe in the cloude, and it shall be for a token betweene me and the earth ¹⁴ And it shall come to passe, that when I bryng a cloude vpon the earth, the bowe also shalbe seene in ye same cloude ¹⁵ And I wyll thinke vpon my couenaunt whiche is betweene me and you, and euery liuing creature in all fleshe: and it shall no more come to passe, that waters make a fludde to destroy all fleshe ¹⁶ And the bowe shalbe in the cloude, and I wyll loke vpon it, that I may thinke vpon the euerlasting couenaunt, betweene god and euery liuing creature in all fleshe that is vpon the earth ¹⁷ And God sayd vnto Noah, This is the token of the couenaunt which I haue made betweene me and all fleshe that is vpon earth