Genesis 9:1-7 (New Revised Standard)
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1
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
2
The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.
3
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
4
Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
5
For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.
6
Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person's blood be shed; for in his own image God made humankind.
7
And you, be fruitful and multiply, abound on the earth and multiply in it."
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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