4. However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
5. I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.
6. Whoever sheds man’s blood,his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in His image.
7. But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”
8. Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
9. “Understand that I am confirming My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
10. and with every living creature that is with you — birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you — all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark.
11. I confirm My covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by the waters of a flood; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12. And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all future generations:
13. I have placed My bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
14. Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds,