Genesis 9:3
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
2 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
4 But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
5 And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
- KJV
- Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
- WEB
- Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
- ASV
- Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; As the green herb have I given you all.
- DARBY
- Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.
- BLB
- every moving thing that [has in] it life, for you⁺ it shall be for food; as the green plants, I have given to you⁺ everything.
- ÅB
- Alt det som rører seg og lever, skal dere ha til føde; slik som jeg gav dere de grønne urter, gir jeg dere alt dette.
- OTB
- Alt som lever og rører seg, skal være mat for dere; slik som jeg ga dere de grønne plantene, gir jeg dere nå alt.
- B1930
- Alt det som rører sig og lever, skal I ha til føde; likesom jeg gav eder de grønne urter, gir jeg eder alt dette.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 14:14
I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
Read in context1 Timothy 4:3–5
They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
Read in contextColossians 2:21–22
“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 12:15
But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:31
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
Read in contextColossians 2:16
Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:25–26
Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
Read in contextActs 10:12–15
It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.
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