New International Version

Genesis 9:3-8 New International Version (NIV)

3. Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

4. “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

5. And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

6. “Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.

7. As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

8. Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: