5. If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life.
6. Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.
7. “You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.”
8. God said to Noah and his sons,
9. “I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants,
10. and with all living beings — all birds and all animals — everything that came out of the boat with you.
11. With these words I make my covenant with you: I promise that never again will all living beings be destroyed by a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.
12. As a sign of this everlasting covenant which I am making with you and with all living beings,
13. I am putting my bow in the clouds. It will be the sign of my covenant with the world.
14. Whenever I cover the sky with clouds and the rainbow appears,
15. I will remember my promise to you and to all the animals that a flood will never again destroy all living beings.
16. When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between me and all living beings on earth.
17. That is the sign of the promise which I am making to all living beings.”
18. The sons of Noah who went out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)