3 Every crawling thing that is alive will be food for you, as are the green plants—I have now given you everything.
4 Only flesh with its life—that is, its blood—you must not eat!
5 Surely your lifeblood will I avenge. From every animal and from every person will I avenge it. From every person’s brother will I avenge that person’s life.
6 The one who sheds human blood, by a human will his blood be shed, for in God’s image He made humanity.
7 But as for you, be fruitful and multiply! Flourish in the land and multiply in it.”
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
9 “Now I, behold, I am about to establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,