Genesis 1:30

I'm giving all the green plants to all the land animals, to the birds, and to every creature that moves on the earth—to every living thing.” And that's what happened.

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In The King James Version

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

In Context

29God said, “Look, I'm giving you as your food every seed-bearing plant anywhere on earth, and every tree that produces fruit with seeds.

31God saw everything that he had created, and yes, it was very good. So there was evening, and then the morning, making day six.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:21Take all kinds of food with you too. Store it so you and the animals will have enough to eat.”

Job 38:39Can you hunt prey for the lion? Can you feed the lion cubs

Job 39:8It hunts in the mountains for pastureland, searching for all kinds of green plants to eat.

Job 40:15Consider Behemoth, a creature I made just like I made you. It eats grass like cattle.

Psalms 104:14You make the grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to eat—crops produced by the earth for food,

Psalms 147:9He gives food to the animals, and to the baby ravens when they call.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:30-31

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 29 And 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. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. We have here the third part of the sixth day's work, which was not any new creation, but a… Read the whole commentary →

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