Genesis 9:1-6 ▼

1 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 dread of you will be on every wild animal of the earth, and on every tame animal of the earth, and on every flying creature of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave the green plants, I now give you everything.

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

5 And surely I will require a reckoning for your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it, and from humans. From every human being I will require it for the life of his fellow human being.

6 Whoever takes a human life, by a human will his life be taken, for God made humankind in his own image.