Genesis 6:21

And you, take for yourself from all food that is eaten; and you have gathered [it] to yourself, and it has been for you and for them for food.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

In Context

20From the bird after its kind, and from the livestock after its kind, [and] from every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every [kind] they come to you, to keep alive.

22And Noah does according to all that God has commanded him; so he has done.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:29And God says, “Behold, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which [is] on the face of all the earth, and every tree in which [is] the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;

Job 38:41Who prepares for a raven his provision, || When his young ones cry to God? They wander without food.”

Psalms 35:6Their way is darkness and slipperiness, || And a messenger of YHWH—their pursuer.

Psalms 136:25Giving food to all flesh, || For His kindness [is] for all time.

Psalms 147:9Giving to the beast its food, || To the young of the ravens that 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 →

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