6. Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
7. Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
8. God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
9. “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
10. and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
11. I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12. God said, “This is the token 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 will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
14. When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,