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Genesis 9:3

Genesis 9:3
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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you,.... That is, every beast, fowl, and fish, without exception; for though there was a difference at this time of clean and unclean creatures with…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Genesis 9:1-7

- The Blessing of Noah 2. מורא môrā', “fear, reverence, awful deed.” חת chat, “dread, breaking of the courage.” Noah is saved from the deluge. His life is twice given to him by God. He had found…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Genesis 9:1-7

We read, in the close of the foregoing chapter, the very kind things which God said in his heart, concerning the remnant of mankind which was now left to be the seed of a new world. Now here we have…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Every moving thing P assumes here that all animals are capable of furnishing food for man, and that there is no distinction between "clean" and "unclean" in the pre-Mosaic dispensation.

as the green…