Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all.
New American Standard Bible
Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you,
King James Version
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Holman Bible
Every living creature will be food for you;
International Standard Version
"Every living, moving creature will be food for you. Just as I gave you green plants before, so now you have everything.
American Standard Version
Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; As the green herb have I given you all.
Amplified
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; I give you everything, as I gave you the green plants and vegetables.
Bible in Basic English
Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
Darby Translation
Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.
Julia Smith Translation
Every creeping thing which it lives shall be food to you as the green herb. I gave you all things.
King James 2000
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green plants have I given you all things.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As [I gave] the green plants to you, I have [now] given you everything.
Modern King James verseion
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herb.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And all that moveth upon the earth, having life, shall be your meat: Even as the green herbs, so give I you all things.
NET Bible
You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
New Heart English Bible
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
The Emphasized Bible
As for every moving thing that hath life, yours, shall it be, for food, - Like the green herb, have I given you all things.
Webster
Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things:
World English Bible
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
Youngs Literal Translation
Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;
Themes
Animals » Ordained as food for man
Beasts » Given to man for food after the flood
Covenant » Of God with men » Everlasting
Endowments » Spiritual promised » Temporal
Gifts » Presents to men spiritual » Temporal, to men
God » Spiritual promised » Temporal
Man » Allowed to eat flesh after the flood
Topics
Interlinear
Chay
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 9:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Covenant With Noah
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, with all with which the ground teems, and all the fishes of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all. 4 But flesh with the life of it, [which is] the blood of it, ye shall not eat.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:15
Notwithstanding, thou may kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of LORD thy God which he has given thee, the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and
Romans 14:14
I know and am persuaded in Lord Jesus, that nothing is profane by itself, except to him who regards anything to be profane. To that man it is profane.
Genesis 1:29-30
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you it shall be for food,
Leviticus 11:1-47
And LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
Leviticus 22:8
That which dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself with it. I am LORD.
Deuteronomy 14:3-21
Thou shall not eat any abominable thing.
Psalm 104:14-15
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herbage for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth,
Acts 10:12-15
in which were all the four-footed things of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the birds of the sky.
Romans 14:3
The man who eats should not disdain the man who does not eat, and the man who does not eat should not criticize the man who eats, for God has received him.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:20
Do not tear down the work of God because of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is wrong to the man who eats through hindrance.
1 Corinthians 10:23
All things are permitted for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are permitted for me, but not all things are constructive.
1 Corinthians 10:25-26
Eat everything being sold in a meat market, inquiring of nothing because of the conscience,
1 Corinthians 10:31
Therefore whether ye eat, or drink, or anything ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Colossians 2:16
Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths,
Colossians 2:21-22
Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch
1 Timothy 4:3-5
forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.