Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you; as I gave the green herbs, I give them all to you.
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In Context
4Only you must not eat flesh while the life is in it, that is, the blood.
Cross References
Psalms 104:14He makes grass grow for the cattle, and herbs for people. He brings bread out of the earth;
Romans 14:3The person who eats meat must not despise the person who abstains from it; nor must the person who abstains from eating meat pass judgment on the one who eats it, for God himself has received them.
Romans 14:17For the kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 10:23Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything does not build up character.
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 →