Genesis 9:2
Good News Translation
All the animals, birds, and fish will live in fear of you. They are all placed under your power.

New Revised Standard Version
The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.

Contemporary English Version
All animals, birds, reptiles, and fish will be afraid of you. I have placed them under your control,

New American Bible
Fear and dread of you shall come upon all the animals of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon all the creatures that move about on the ground and all the fishes of the sea; into your power they are delivered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

Genesis 2:19 And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name.

Genesis 35:5 And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.

Leviticus 26:6,22 I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters. . . .

Job 5:22,23 In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth. . . .

Psalm 8:4-8 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? . . .

Psalm 104:20-23 Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about: . . .

Ezekiel 34:25 And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they that dwell in the wilderness shall sleep secure in the forests.

Hosea 2:18 And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.

James 3:7 For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of the rest is tamed and hath been tamed, by the nature of man.

Context
The Covenant of the Rainbow
1And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth. 2And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.3And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:…
Cross References
Genesis 1:21
And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:3
And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:

Genesis 9:1
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