Genesis 6:21

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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

20Of birds after their kind, and of behemah after their kind, of every remes of ha'adamah after its kind, two of every kind shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

22Thus did Noach; according to all that Elohim commanded him, so did he.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:29And G-d said, Hinei, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of kol ha'aretz (all the earth), and every etz (tree), in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.

Job 38:41Who provideth for the raven his food? 1 When his young ones cry unto El, 1 they wander about for lack of okhel.

Psalms 35:6Let their derech be choshech and slippery; 1 and let the Malach Hashem pursue them. 1

Psalms 136:25Who giveth lechem to kol basar; 1 ki l'olam chasdo. 1

Psalms 147:9He giveth to the behemah her lechem, 1 and to the bnei orev (young ravens) when they cry out. 1

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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