4. But I give you one command. You must not eat meat that still has its life (blood) in it.
5. Also, I will demand your blood for your lives. That is, I will demand the life of any person or animal that takes a human life.
6. “God made humans to be like himself. So whoever kills a person must be killed by another person.
7. “Have many children and fill the earth with your people.”
8. Then God said to Noah and his sons,
9. “I now make my promise to you and to your people who will live after you.
10. I make my promise to all the birds, and to all the cattle, and to all the animals that came out of the boat with you. I make my promise to every living thing on earth.
11. This is my promise to you: All life on the earth was destroyed by the flood. But that will never happen again. A flood will never again destroy all life on the earth.”
12. And God said, “I will give you something to prove that I made this promise to you. It will continue forever to show that I have made an agreement with you and every living thing on earth.
13. I am putting a rainbow in the clouds as proof of the agreement between me and the earth.