1. God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fertile, multiply, and fill the earth.
2. All of the animals on the earth will fear you and dread you—all the birds in the skies, everything crawling on the ground, and all of the sea’s fish. They are in your power.
3. Everything that lives and moves will be your food. Just as I gave you the green grasses, I now give you everything.
4. However, you must not eat meat with its life, its blood, in it.
5. I will surely demand your blood for a human life,from every living thing I will demand it.From humans, from a man for his brother,I will demand something for a human life.
6. Whoever sheds human blood,by a human his blood will be shed;for in the divine imageGod made human beings.
7. As for you, be fertile and multiply. Populate the earth and multiply in it."
8. God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
9. "I am now setting up my covenant with you, with your descendants,
10. and with every living being with you—with the birds, with the large animals, and with all the animals of the earth, leaving the ark with you.
11. I will set up my covenant with you so that never again will all life be cut off by floodwaters. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth."
12. God said, "This is the symbol of the covenant that I am drawing up between me and you and every living thing with you, on behalf of every future generation.
13. I have placed my bow in the clouds; it will be the symbol of the covenant between me and the earth.