Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
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4But you must not eat meat with its life—that is its blood—in it.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Deuteronomy 12:15However, you may kill and eat animals within all your gates, as you wish, receiving the blessing of Yahweh your God for all that he has given you; the unclean and the clean persons both may eat of it, animals such as the gazelle and the deer.
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
Romans 14:3May the one who eats everything not despise the one who does not; and may the one who does not eat everything not judge the other who eats everything. For God has accepted him.
Romans 14:17For the kingdom of God is not about food and drink, but about righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 10:23“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds people up.
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 →