1. God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fertile, multiply, and fill the earth.
2. All of the animals on the earth will fear you and dread you—all the birds in the skies, everything crawling on the ground, and all of the sea’s fish. They are in your power.
3. Everything that lives and moves will be your food. Just as I gave you the green grasses, I now give you everything.
4. However, you must not eat meat with its life, its blood, in it.
5. I will surely demand your blood for a human life,from every living thing I will demand it.From humans, from a man for his brother,I will demand something for a human life.
6. Whoever sheds human blood,by a human his blood will be shed;for in the divine imageGod made human beings.
7. As for you, be fertile and multiply. Populate the earth and multiply in it."
8. God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
9. "I am now setting up my covenant with you, with your descendants,
10. and with every living being with you—with the birds, with the large animals, and with all the animals of the earth, leaving the ark with you.