Genesis 9:9-17

9‘I promise you that I will obey the covenant that I am making with you. I promise this to you and to all your descendants.

10I also promise this to all the animals and birds that came out of the ship with you. That is everything that lives on the earth.

11This is the covenant that I promise to keep: I will never cause water to destroy all living things on the earth again. Deep water will never again come again to destroy the earth.’

12Then God said, ‘I will show you clearly that I have made this covenant with you, and with every living animal. I will keep this promise for ever, for as long as people live on the earth.

13I have put my rainbow among the clouds in the sky. It will show you clearly that I have made this covenant with everything on the earth.

14When I bring clouds over the earth, a rainbow will sometimes appear.

15Then I will remember the covenant that I have made with you and with all the different kinds of living things. Never again will the water become so deep that it destroys everything that lives.

16When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember my covenant. It is a promise that I have made with every kind of living thing on the earth.’

17Then God said to Noah, ‘The rainbow will show you that I will certainly keep my promise. I will keep my covenant that is between me and everything that lives on the earth.’