Genesis 9:1-6 ▼

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

2 The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you.

3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, as I gave the green plant.

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

5 I certainly will require your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it. And from every person, from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.

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