Genesis 9:3

Before now, I gave you plants to eat, but from now on you can eat anything that is alive.

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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

2And I am making you the boss over everything that lives on the ground, all the animals, all the birds, and all the fish in the sea too. But they will be frightened of you.

4But do not eat meat that still has blood in it. That blood keeps an animal alive, so let all the blood run out.

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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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