Genesis 9:1-6 ▼

1 And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

2 and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every bird of the heavens, on all that creeps on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea—into your hand they have been given.

3 Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

4 only flesh in its life—its blood—you do not eat.

5 And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man’s brother I require the life of man;

6 whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.