Noah

===After the flood===
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After the flood, Noah offered burnt offerings to God. God accepted the sacrifice, and made a covenant with Noah, and through him with all mankind, that he would not waste the earth or destroy man by another deluge.<ref name=Bechtel/>

"And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth".<ref>{{bibleverse||Genesis|9:1|9}}</ref> As a pledge of this gracious covenant with man and beast the [[rainbow covenant|rainbow]] was set in the clouds (ib. viii. 15–22, ix. 8–17). Two injunctions were laid upon Noah: While the eating of animal food was permitted, abstinence from blood was strictly enjoined; and the shedding of the blood of man by man was made a crime punishable by death at the hands of man (ib. ix. 3–6).<ref name=JewishEnyc/>

Noah, as the last of the extremely long-lived [[Antediluvian]] patriarchs, died 350 years after the flood, at the age of 950, when [[Terah]] was 128.<ref name=Bechtel/> The maximum human lifespan, as depicted by the Bible, gradually diminishes thereafter, from almost 1,000 years to the 120 years of [[Moses]].<ref>{{bibleref2|Gen|6:3|9|Genesis 6:3}}</ref><ref>{{bibleref2|Deut|31:22|9|Deuteronomy 31:22}}, {{bibleref2|Deut|34:37|9|34:37}}</ref>