Genesis 1:29

God said to the humans, “Listen! I have given you all the plants that produce seeds, all over the earth, and all the trees that have seeds in their fruit. All these things are for you to eat.

Translation for Translators

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

28God blessed them, saying, “Produce many children, who will live all over the earth and rule over it. I want them to rule over the fish and the birds and over all creatures that scurry across the ground.”

30I have given all the green plants to all the wild animals and to the birds and to all the creatures that scurry across the ground, to everything that breathes, for them to eat.” And that is what happened.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:21You must also take some of every kind of food that you and all these animals will need, and store it in the boat.”

Job 36:31By providing plenty of rain for us, he enables us to have abundant food.

Psalms 104:14You make/cause grass to grow for the cattle to eat, and you make/cause plants to grow for people. In that way animals and people get their food from what grows in the soil.

Psalms 111:5He provides food for those who revere him; he never forgets the agreement that he made with our ancestors.

Psalms 136:25He is the one who gives food to all living creatures; his faithful love for us endures forever.

Psalms 146:7He decides matters fairly for those who are ◄treated unfairly/oppressed►, and he provides food for those who are hungry. He frees those who are in prison.

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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