Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
KJV
Et omne, quod movetur et vivit, erit vobis in cibum : quasi olera virentia tradidi vobis omnia.
Vulgate
καὶ πᾶν ἑρπετὸν ὅ ἐστιν ζῶν ὑμῖν ἔσται εἰς βρῶσιν· ὡς λάχανα χόρτου ἔδωκα ὑμῖν τὰ πάντα.
LXX
Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.
ASV
כָּל רֶ֨מֶשׂ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הוּא חַ֔י לָ/כֶ֥ם יִהְיֶ֖ה לְ/אָכְלָ֑ה כְּ/יֶ֣רֶק עֵ֔שֶׂב נָתַ֥תִּי לָ/כֶ֖ם אֶת כֹּֽל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אָכְלָֽה
'klh
noun · 17×
ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
חַי
chy
verb · 502×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יֶ֥רֶק
yrq
noun · 6×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
עֵ֣שֶׂב
'shb
noun · 33×
רֶ֖מֶשׂ
rmsh
noun · 17×
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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And God blessed Noah and his sons. The covenant with Noah is a renewal of the original blessing given to Adam. The prohibition of blood points to the sacredness of life. The rainbow is the sign of the covenant — not that it had not existed before, but that God now appointed it as a pledge of his faithfulness. Noah's drunkenness shows that even the most holy men may fall into gr…
Having manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession; and being about to examine by what method God and the happy life may be found, he enlarges on the nature and power of memory. Then he examines his own acts, thoughts and affections, viewed under the threefold division of temptation; and commemorates the Lord, the one mediator of God and me…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 10:23 — All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
- 1Cor 10:25 — Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
- 1Cor 10:31 — Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
- 1Tim 4:3 — 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.
- 1Tim 4:3 — 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.
- Acts 10:12 — Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
- Col 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:
- Col 2:21 — (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
- Deut 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 ma
- Deut 14:3 — Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
- Gen 1:29 — And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
- Gen 1:29 — And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
- Gen 1:30 — And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
- Lev 11:1 — And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
- Lev 22:8 — That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.
- Ps 104:14 — He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
- Ps 104:14 — He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
- Rom 14:2 — For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
- Rom 14:3 — Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
- Rom 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.
- Rom 14:17 — For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
- Rom 14:20 — For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.