Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that liveth, for you it shall be to eat; as the green herb I have given you the whole.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
4But the flesh with its life-blood you shall not eat.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:1And the Lord spake with Mosheh and to Aharon, saying to them:
Deuteronomy 12:15Though in any place where thy soul may desire thou mayest kill and eat flesh, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which He will give thee in all thy cities; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as the flesh of the gazelle and the deer.
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 →