The Rainbow After the Flood

^{Genesis 8:16} Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

^{Genesis 8:20} And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

^{Genesis 8:21} And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

^{Genesis 8:22} While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

^{Genesis 9:1} And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

^{Genesis 9:10} And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

^{Genesis 9:11} And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

^{Genesis 9:12} And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

^{Genesis 9:13} I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

^{Genesis 9:15} And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

^{Genesis 9:16} And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

^{Genesis 9:17} And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.