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Genesis 9:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Genesis 9:3

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

2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

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

4 But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

5 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

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Genesis 1:30

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"To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so."

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Genesis 6:20

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"Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive."

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Deuteronomy 28:26

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"Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away."

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Deuteronomy 11:15

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"I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full."

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Psalms 79:2

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"They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth."

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Leviticus 25:7

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"For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food."

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Genesis 9:1

"God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth."

Genesis 9:2

"The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand."

Genesis 9:4

"But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat."

Genesis 9:5

"I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man."

Genesis 9:6

"Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image."

Genesis 9:7

"Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly on the earth, and multiply in it.”"

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