Genesis 9:3

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Genesis 9:3

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

King James Version

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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WEB

World English Bible

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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Berean Literal Bible

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Genesis 9

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

² The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

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.

⁴ But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

⁵ And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

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