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After the flood, God makes a promise sealed with a rainbow: he will never destroy the earth with water again.
Noah builds an altar and offers sacrifices. God is pleased and makes a covenant — not just with Noah, but with every living creature. He sets the rainbow in the sky as the sign of this promise. God also establishes new rules for humanity: they may now eat meat, but not blood, and murder will carry the penalty of death. It's a fresh start with clear boundaries.
After months of silence on an endless ocean, God remembers Noah. The waters pull back, a dove brings proof of dry land, and Noah steps out into a world that's been completely reset — then God makes a promise He's kept every single day since.
GenesisStarting Over With a PromiseGod gives Noah's family a fresh start with a blessing, new boundaries around the sacredness of life, and the most famous promise in the sky. But it doesn't take long for the family that survived the flood to prove that a reset isn't the same thing as a cure.
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