Genesis 9:3-5

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³ Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you, and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.^{(A) 4} Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.^{(B) 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.^(C)