Genesis 9:3 Parallel Translations

Everything that lives and moves will be your food. I gave you green plants as food; I now give you everything else.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

DBY:

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food 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 the green herb, I have given everything to you.

YLT:

Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

Genesis 9:3 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 1:29 Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

9:3 Every {c} moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
(c) By this permission man may with a good conscience use the creatures of God for his needs.

WES:

9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you - Hitherto man had been confined to feed only upon the products of the earth, fruits, herbs and roots, and all sorts of corn and milk; so was the first grant, Gen 1:29. But the flood having perhaps washed away much of the virtue of the earth, and so rendered its fruits less pleasing, and less nourishing, God now enlarged the grant, and allowed man to eat flesh, which perhaps man himself never thought of 'till now. The precepts and provisos of this charter are no less kind and gracious, and instances of God's good - will to man. The Jewish doctors speak so often of the seven precepts of Noah, or of the sons of Noah, which they say were to be observed by all nations, that it may not be amiss to set them down. The first against the worship of idols. The second against blasphemy, and requiring to bless the name of God. The third against murder. The fourth against incest and all uncleanness. The fifth against theft and rapine. The sixth requiring the administration of justice. The seventh against eating flesh with the life. These the Jews required the observation of, from the proselytes of the gate. But the precepts here given, all concern the life of man. Man must not prejudice his own life by eating that food which is unwholsome, and prejudicial to his health.

MHC:

9:1-3 The blessing of God is the cause of our doing well. On him we depend, to him we should be thankful. Let us not forget the advantage and pleasure we have from the labour of beasts, and which their flesh affords. Nor ought we to be less thankful for the security we enjoy from the savage and hurtful beasts, through the fear of man which God has fixed deep in them. We see the fulfilment of this promise every day, and on every side. This grant of the animals for food fully warrants the use of them, but not the abuse of them by gluttony, still less by cruelty. We ought not to pain them needlessly whilst they live, nor when we take away their lives.

CONC:

Alive Creeping Green Herb Meat Moving Plant Plants

Alive Creeping Food Green Herb Lives Meat Moves Moving Plant Plants Whole

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