Genesis 6:21
You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
20Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
22So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
Cross References
Genesis 1:29Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
Job 38:41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
Psalms 35:6May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
Psalms 136:25He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
Psalms 147:9He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:14-22
Prediction of the Deluge. ( b. c. 2448.) 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window… Read the whole commentary →