Genesis 8:20-Genesis 9:17 - God's Covenant With Noah
20 And Noah made an altar unto the LORD, and took of all manner of clean beasts and all manner of clean fowls, and offered sacrifice upon the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and said in his heart, "I will henceforth no more curse the earth for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil even from the very youth of him. Moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that liveth as I have done.
22 Neither shall sowing time and harvest, cold, and heat, summer and winter, day and night cease, as long as the earth endureth."
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, "Increase and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear also and dread of you be upon all beasts of the earth, and upon all fowls of the air, and upon all that creepeth on the earth, and upon all fishes of the sea, which are given unto your hands. 3 And all that moveth upon the earth, having life, shall be your meat: Even as the green herbs, so give I you all things. 4 Only: the flesh with his life, which is his blood, see that ye eat not. 5 For verily the blood of you, wherein your lives are, will I require: Even of the hand of all beasts will I require it, and of the hand of man and of the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man:
6 so that he which sheddeth man's blood, shall have his blood shed by man again: for God made man after his own likeness.
7 See that ye increase, and wax, and be occupied upon the earth, and multiply therein."
8 Furthermore, God spake unto Noah and to his sons with him saying, 9 "See, I make my covenant with you and your seed after you, 10 and with all living things that is with you: both fowl and cattle, and all manner beast of the earth that is with you, of all that cometh out of the ark, whatsoever beast of the earth it be. 11 I make my covenant with you, that henceforth all flesh shall not be destroyed with the waters of any flood, and that henceforth there shall not be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said, "This is the token of my covenant which I make between me and you, and between all living thing, that is with you forever: 13 I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant made between me and the earth; 14 so that when I bring in clouds upon the earth, the bow shall appear in the clouds. 15 And then will I think upon my covenant which I have made between me and you, and all that liveth, whatsoever flesh it be. So that henceforth there shall be no more waters to make a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The bow shall be in the clouds, and I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and all that liveth upon the earth, whatsoever flesh it be." 17 And God said unto Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have made between me and all flesh that is on the earth."