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
Christendom Astray from the Bible chapters and republished as "Christendom Astray From the Bible" in 1884. "Christendom Astray" covers topics such as "The Bible—What it is, and how to interpret it" (chapter 1), "The Dead Unconscious till the Resurrection, and consequent error of popular belief in heaven and hell" (chapter 3), "The Devil not a personal supernatural being, but the scriptural personification of sin in its manifestations among men" (chapter 7) and "The Promises made to the Fathers (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), yet to be fulfilled in the setting up of the Kingdom of God upon earth" (chapter 9). The last section of the book