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 The fear and the terror of you shall be [instinctive] in every animal of the land and in every bird of the air; and together with everything that moves on the ground, and with all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hand.

3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; I give you everything, as I gave you the green plants and vegetables.

4 But you shall not eat meat along with its life, that is, its blood.

5 For your lifeblood I will most certainly require an accounting; from every animal [that kills a person] I will require it. And from man, from every man’s brother [that is, anyone who murders] I will require the life of man.

6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood [unlawfully], By man (judicial government) shall his blood be shed, For in the image of God He made man.