Genesis 9:3

You can eat them now. I gave you plants for food before, but now I am giving you these animals and birds and fish, so that you can eat meat as well as other food.

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In The King James Version

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

In Context

2All the animals, birds and fish will be afraid of you. And you will rule over them.

4But you must not eat meat with the blood still in it. You mustn't eat it, because the life is in the blood.

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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 →

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