God makes a covenant with Noah

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.