Genesis 6:18

The New American Bible has the following verse, describing how Yahweh will destroy the world by flood, to wash away sin and filth, but he will save Noah and his ark will also carry the beasts and creatures of the field. He would establish a covenant with Noah and his descendants" But with you I will establish my covenant; you and your sons, your wife and your sons' wives shall go into the ark." God wiped out the wicked but spares the righteous so that humankind would have a future. Yahweh, whose Creator powers include Logos, his spiritual and rational principle, immanent in and controlling nature and reality and yet transcending them both. God, the speaker and rational being, speaks to allow the average person to enjoy a contract with the Divinity, partners forever. God had a legalistic mental outlook, so he enters a contract with humans whereby he protects them and blesses them, and they in return obey his commandments, spread his cause on earth. God pays humans a silent compliment: he treats them as equals, someone that he would enter a covenant with. Mortal humans then enjoyed a permanent contract with high God. Humans have worth, so they must live well and be holy or pay the price because will accept no less from them, and God is monitoring their every move. Let me quote this same verse from the Holy Bible (KJV): "But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee."