Noah with the exception that the blood was not to be eaten. Man's life blood would be required from the beasts and from man. "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man" (9:6). A rainbow, called "my bow", was given as the sign of a covenant "between me and you and every living creature that "[is]" with you, for perpetual generations" (), called the Noahic covenant or the rainbow covenant. Noah died 350 years after the flood, at the age of 950, the last of the extremely long-lived antediluvian
The Bible and violence out" but in another idiom it means to "be blotted out...from...[the] earth" to "be exterminated, be destroyed, perish"; and "kalah" (kalah in Qal can mean "be finished, be destroyed). When Adam and Eve disobey God, he curses them and banishes them from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3). In Genesis 4:1-18 Cain, the first born man, murders his brother Abel. God curses Cain for this, and also grants him protection from danger. In the Genesis flood narrative (Genesis 6-9), God sees that "wickedness of man was great" and decides to exterminate mankind and all animals, saving only Noah and those