Genesis 9

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

²The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

³Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

⁴But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

⁵And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

⁶Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

⁷But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

⁸Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

⁹“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

¹⁰and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.

¹¹And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

¹²And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: