Genesis
8:15-9 New King James Version (NKJV)

15 Then God spoke to Noah,
saying, 16 “Go
out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every
living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the
earth.” 18 So
Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every
bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the
ark.
God’s Covenant with Creation
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and
offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the Lord smelled a soothing
aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse
the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth;
nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

22 “While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

God’s Promise to Noah
9 So God blessed
Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 And the fear of you and
the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that
move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.
3 Every moving
thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.
4 But you shall
not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 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 God
He made man.
7 And as for you,
be fruitful and multiply;
Bring forth abundantly in the earth
And 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 descendantsafter 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. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I will remember My covenant which
is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again
become a flood to destroy all flesh.