But flesh with its soul, its blood, you shall not eat. He made man. The flood is over, Man returns to the world, and the relationship, in terms of rights and prohibitions, is defined. These verses refer to the relationship with other living things. The post-deluge world experienced a drastic change in the status of man and the rules governing his relations with the other species.
Man is from now on to be feared by all the creatures of the earth.
Unlike pre-deluge man who was forbidden from slaughtering animals for food, Noah is now permitted to kill animals for his consumption. The commentators differed as to the content of these limitations. Man may slaughter and eat an animal, but he may not cut a limb off of a living animal and eat it. The Radak explains that this was forbidden because it is cruel and barbarous behavior. According to them, the verse does not prohibit the eating of a limb from a living animal, but rather forbids the eating of the blood of an animal.