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And fear of you and dread of you shall be upon every animal of the earth, and on every bird of heaven,[a] and on everything that moves upon the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they shall be given. Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As I gave the green plants to you, I have now given you everything. Only you shall not eat raw flesh with blood in it.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 9:2 Or “the sky”
  2. Genesis 9:4 Literally “flesh with its life, its blood”

The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.(A) Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.(B) Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.(C)

“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.(D)

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