Genesis 1:29

God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant throughout all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit. They will be food for you,

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

28Then God blessed them, and said to them: “Be fruitful, grow in number, fill the earth and govern it; rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that crawls on the ground,”

30and to every wild beast and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that crawls on the earth – everything with the breath of life in it, I give every green plant for food.” It was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:21Take and store food for them and you.”

Psalms 104:14He makes grass grow for the cattle, and herbs for people. He brings bread out of the earth;

Psalms 111:5Food he gives to those who revere him, always he remembers his covenant.

Psalms 136:25Who gives to all flesh food: for his kindness endures forever.

Psalms 146:7For the wronged he executes justice; he gives bread to the hungry; the Lord releases the prisoners.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:27-29

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have… Read the whole commentary →

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