Genesis 9:3

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.

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 thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

⁵ And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of 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.

Compare

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 know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
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1 Timothy 4:3–5
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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Colossians 2:21–22
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
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Deuteronomy 12:15
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
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1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
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Colossians 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
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1 Corinthians 10:25–26
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
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Acts 10:12–15
Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
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