1. Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
2. Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.
3. You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
4. But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.
5. For your lifeblood I will surely exact punishment, from every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person I will exact punishment for the life of the individual since the man was his relative.
6. “Whoever sheds human blood,by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s imageGod has made humankind.”
7. But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”
8. God said to Noah and his sons,