Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Parallel translations
- WEB Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
- BSB Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
- NKJV Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.
- NASB Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, as I gave the green plant.
- NLT I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables.
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Quick answer
God grants humanity every moving creature for food, as he had earlier given plants. A new provision of food is established after the flood.
Overview
This expands the original grant of plant food to include animals, reflecting God's gracious provision for human life in the renewed world. It marks a development in God's dealings with humanity following the flood. The gift of food underscores God's faithful care to sustain those he has saved.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Rom 14:14I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
- 1 Tim 4:3–5Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
- Col 2:21–22(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
- Deut 12:15Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
- 1 Cor 10:31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
- 1 Cor 10:25–26Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
- Col 2:16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
- 1 Cor 10:23All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
- Acts 10:12–15Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
- Ps 104:14–15He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
- Rom 14:3Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
- Lev 11:1–47And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
- Rom 14:20For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
- Lev 22:8That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.
- Gen 1:29–30And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
- Rom 14:17For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
- Deut 14:3–21Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
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