God gave Noah the same kind of mandate He gave Adam in the beginning of creation (Genesis 1:28) since Noah essentially began all over again.ī.
Be fruitful and multiply: The world Noah entered from the ark was significantly different from the world he knew before. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.”Ī. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. (1-4) Instructions for living in a new world.
