Genesis 6:21

Gather for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and store it, so that it will be food for you and for them.”

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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 the birds after their kind, and of the larger animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.

22So Noah did this. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:29God said, “See, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the surface of all the earth, and every tree with fruit which has seed in it. They will be food to you.

Job 38:41Who provides victims for the ravens 1 when their young ones cry out to God 1 and stagger about for lack of food?

Psalms 35:6May their way be dark and slippery, 1 as the angel of Yahweh chases them. 1

Psalms 136:25who gives food to all living beings, 1 for his covenant faithfulness endures forever. 1

Psalms 147:9He gives food to the animals 1 and to the young ravens when they cry. 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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