5. For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his brother, I will examine the life of mankind.
6. Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.
7. But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it."
8. To Noah and to his sons with him, God also said this:
9. "Behold, I will establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
10. and with every living soul that is with you: as much with the birds as with the cattle and all the animals of the earth that have gone forth from the ark, and with all the wild beasts of the earth.
11. I will establish my covenant with you, and no longer will all that is flesh be put to death by the waters of a great flood, and, henceforth, there will not be a great flood to utterly destroy the earth."
12. And God said: "This is the sign of the pact that I grant between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.
13. I will place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself and the earth.
14. And when I obscure the sky with clouds, my arc will appear in the clouds.
15. And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that enlivens flesh. And there will no longer be waters from a great flood to wipe away all that is flesh.
16. And the arc will be in the clouds, and I will see it, and I will remember the everlasting covenant that was enacted between God and every living soul of all that is flesh upon the earth."
17. And God said to Noah, "This will be the sign of the covenant that I have established between myself and all that is flesh upon the earth."
18. And so the sons of Noah, who came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now Ham himself is the father of Canaan.