"Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." — Genesis 9:3

Genesis 9:3 · KJV

“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”

— Genesis 9:3

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth {upon} the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Verse 4

But flesh with the life thereof, {which is} the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Genesis 9 — Context

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

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

But flesh with the life thereof, {which is} the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Cross References

Romans 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. {unclean: Gr. common}

1 Timothy 4:3-5

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.

Colossians 2:21-22

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

Deuteronomy 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 may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

1 Corinthians 10:31

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:25-26

Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, {that} eat, asking no question for conscience sake:

Colossians 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}: {in meat...: or, for eating and drinking} {respect: or, part}

Acts 10:12-15

Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.