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,
15. I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16. The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”