Holy Scripture
Genesis 9:4
A church father on this verse
“And He changed the food of men, giving them leave to eat flesh: for from Adam the first-formed until the Flood men ate only of seeds and the fruit of trees, and to eat flesh was not permitted to them. But since the three sons of Noah were the beginning of a race of men, God blessed them for multiplication and increase…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4But flesh with blood of life ye shall not eat.
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In context
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.
3And every reptile which is living shall be to you for meat, I have given all things to you as the green herbs.
— Genesis 9:4 —
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.
6He that sheds man’s blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.