1. Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
2. Every beast of the earth and every bird of the sky and all that moves on the earth and all the fish of the sea will fear you and be terrified of you. They are given into your hand.
3. Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. I give you everything, just as I gave you the green plant.
4. “Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
5. But for your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; from every animal will I require it; of man, too, will I require a reckoning for human life, of every man for that of his fellow man.
6. Whoever sheds the blood of man,by man shall his blood be shed;for God made manin His own image.
7. And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly in the earth and multiply in it.”
8. Again God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
9. “As for Me, I establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;