Genesis 9:1-6 ▼

1 God blessed Noah and his sons and ordered them, |Be productive, multiply, and fill the earth.

2 All the living creatures of the earth will be filled with fear and terror of you from now on, including all the creatures that fly in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the ocean. They've been assigned to live under your dominion.

3 |Every living, moving creature will be food for you. Just as I gave you green plants before, so now you have everything.

4 However, you are not to eat meat with its life—that is, its blood—in it!

5 Also, I will certainly demand an accounting regarding bloodshed, from every animal and from every human being. I'll demand an accounting from every human being for the life of another human being.

6 |Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his own blood is to be shed; because God made human beings in his own image.