Genesis 9:1-25

Ch 9 has generated controversy because of its content since the time of Moses, and it still goes on today.

1 ¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. “Fruitful” means “fill up”. People look back at the flood and think there were just a few people on earth, but after experts did calculations, there were millions of people on the earth at that time.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moves upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. This is something totally different that happened after the flood. Before the flood, animals were not afraid of man. Now the animals are frightened of human beings. God changed many things after the flood.
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. Before the flood, men were vegetarians. After the flood, they are instructed to eat meat by God. Every moving thing that lives shall be meat for you. God said “before the flood, Noah was to eat veggies. Now if it moves, you can eat it.”
4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. You are not to use BLOOD as food. That is the one stipulation. You cannot eat blood. It is a symbol of life God has given.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Verse 5 and 6 introduce something totally new. This is the introduction of human....