Genesis 9:1-3

God's Covenant with Noah

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, _q "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. ² _r The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. ³ _s Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And _t as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

1. Cross References
   Genesis 1:22
   And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
   Genesis 1:28
   And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
   Genesis 8:17
   Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh - birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth - that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 8:6 - 8
   You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet.
   James 3:7
   For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 12:15
   However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.
   1 Timothy 4:3 - 4
   Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
   
4. Cross References
   Genesis 1:29
   And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.