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;
10. and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
11. I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth."
12. God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;