1. And 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 terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.
3. Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.
4. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
5. Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man's brother I will require the life of man.
6. "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.
7. "As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."
8. Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
9. "Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;