4. Only you shall not eat raw flesh with blood in it.
5. And your lifeblood I will require; from every animal I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of each man to his brother I will require the life of humankind.
6. “As for the one shedding the blood of humankind, by humankind his blood shall be shed, for God made humankind in his own image.
7. “And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it.”
8. And God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
9. “As for me, behold, I am establishing my covenant with you and with your seed after you,
10. and with every living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and every animal of the earth with you, from all that came out of the ark to all the animals of the earth.
11. I am establishing my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor will there ever be a flood that destroys the earth.”
12. And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you, and between every living creature that is with you for future generations.
13. My bow I have set in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and between the earth.
14. And when I make clouds appear over the earth the bow shall be seen in the clouds.
15. Then I will remember my covenant that is between me and you, and between every living creature, with all flesh. And the waters of a flood will never again cause the destruction of all flesh.
16. The bow shall be in the clouds, and I will see it, so as to remember the everlasting covenant between God and between every living creature, with all flesh that is upon the earth.”
17. And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am establishing between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
18. Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
19. These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
20. And Noah began to be a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard.