Genesis 1:30
To every beast of the earth, to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, and to every creature that has the breath of life I have given every green plant for food.” It was so.
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Genesis 6:21Gather for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and store it, so that it will be food for you and for them.”
Job 38:39Can you hunt down a victim for a lioness 1 or satisfy the appetite of her young lion cubs 1
Job 39:8He roams over the mountains as his pastures; 1 there he looks for every green plant to eat. 1
Job 40:15Look now at the behemoth, which I made when I made you; 1 he eats grass like an ox. 1
Psalms 104:14He makes the grass grow for the cattle 1 and plants for man to cultivate 1 so that man may produce food from the earth. 1
Psalms 147:9He gives food to the animals 1 and to the young ravens when they cry. 1
Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:30-31
The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 29 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. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. We have here the third part of the sixth day's work, which was not any new creation, but a… Read the whole commentary →