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[watertank]

And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; and with every living creture that is with you, of the birds, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that came out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 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: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living crature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

clear transition from creation/synthesis to maintenance mode. it appears that, while Noah was travelling in his ark, God spent some time re-thinking the situation, and made some decisions wrt earth and living creatures. blood laws, covenant not to destroy, and a reminder (visible to himself and living creatures). the core notion here is the realization that the scale of the system requires an approach not based on direct intervention.