Holy Scripture
Genesis 9:3
A church father on this verse
“Moreover, you were commanded to abstain from certain kinds of food, in order that you might keep God before your eyes while you ate and drank, seeing that you were prone and very ready to depart from His knowledge, as Moses also affirms: "The people ate and drank, and rose up to play." And again: "Jacob ate, and was s…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3And every reptile which is living shall be to you for meat, I have given all things to you as the green herbs.
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1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and have dominion over it.
2And the dread and the fear of you shall be upon all the wild beasts of the earth, on all the birds of the sky, and on all things moving upon the earth, and upon all the fish of the sea, I have placed them under your power.
— Genesis 9:3 —
4But flesh with blood of life ye shall not eat.
5For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand of his brother man.