Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
Deuteronomy 12:15Nevertheless, according to all the desire of thy soul thou mayest slay and eat flesh in all thy gates, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and the hart.
Psalms 104:14He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,
Romans 14:3Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.
Romans 14:17for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in [the] Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 10:23All things are lawful, but all are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all do not edify.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:2-8
Blessing of Noah and His Sons. ( b. c. 2348.) 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 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 moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with the life… Read the whole commentary →