Genesis 9:1-6 ▼

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

2 And the fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.

3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; as with the green plant, I give all to you.

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

5 Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every living thing I will require it. And from every man, from each man’s brother I will require the life of man.

6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.