Genesis 9:3 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 9:3

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

KJV

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

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Commentary

3 voices

Irenaeus

The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, Section 22 (202)

And He changed the food of men, giving them leave to eat flesh: for from Adam the first-formed until the Flood men ate only of seeds and the fruit of trees, and to eat flesh was not permitted to them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(2.) That every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, 1 Tim. iv. Afterwards some meats that were proper enough for food were prohibited by the ceremonial law; but from the beginning, it seems, it was not so, and therefore is not so under the gospel.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Every moving thing - shall be meat - There is no positive evidence that animal food was ever used before the flood. Noah had the first grant of this kind, and it has been continued to all his posterity ever since. It is not likely that this grant would have been now made if some extraordinary alteration had not taken place in the vegetable world, so as to render its productions less nutritive than they were before; and probably such a change in the constitution of man as to render a grosser and higher diet necessary.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כָּל־	kol-	every	H3605 →
רֶ֙מֶשׂ֙	Re.mes	creeping thing	H7431 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
הוּא־	hu'-	it	H1931 →
חַ֔י	Chai	[is] alive	H2416 →
לָכֶ֥ם	la.Khem	for <the> you
יִהְיֶ֖ה	yih.Yeh	it will become	H1961 →
לְאָכְלָ֑ה	le.'okh.Lah	<into> food	H402 →
כְּיֶ֣רֶק	ke.Ye.rek	like [the] greenery of	H3418 →
עֵ֔שֶׂב	'E.sev	plant[s]	H6212 →
נָתַ֥תִּי	na.Ta.ti	I give	H5414 →
לָכֶ֖ם	la.Khem	to <the> you
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כֹּֽל׃	Kol	everything	H3605 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 10:31
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
leads to
- Colossians 3:17
  And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
- Colossians 3:23
  Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,
- 1 Peter 4:11
  If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through…
- Deuteronomy 12:7
  There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.
- Deuteronomy 12:18
  Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within…
Through
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.
leads to
- Titus 1:15
  To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- 1 Timothy 4:4
  For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
- Romans 14:2
  For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Genesis

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Genesis