5. Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
6. “Whoever sheds man’s blood,By man his blood shall be shed;For in the image of GodHe made man.
7. And as for you, be fruitful and multiply;Bring forth abundantly in the earthAnd multiply in it.”
8. Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:
9. “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
10. and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.
11. Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12. And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13. I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.