Holy Scripture
Genesis 9:6
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“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
6He that sheds man’s blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.
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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.
— Genesis 9:6 —
7But do ye increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and have dominion over it.
8And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,