Genesis 1:30
To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.
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Genesis 6:21Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
Job 38:39“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
Job 39:8The range of the mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.
Job 40:15“See now behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.
Psalms 104:14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
Psalms 147:9He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
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 →