Genesis 9:3

3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Genesis 9:3 in Other Translations

KJV
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
ESV
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
NLT
3 I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables.
MSG
3 All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else.
CSB
3 Every living creature will be food for you; as [I gave] the green plants, I have given you everything.

Genesis 9:3 In-Context

1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.
3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Genesis 1:29
  • 2. S Acts 10:15; Colossians 2:16
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