Genesis 9:3
Good News Translation
Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food.

New Revised Standard Version
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Contemporary English Version
and I have given them to you for food. From now on, you may eat them, as well as the green plants that you have always eaten.

New American Bible
Any living creature that moves about shall be yours to eat; I give them all to you as I did the green plants.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:

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And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:

Every.

Leviticus 11:1-47 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: . . .

Leviticus 22:8 That which dieth of itself, and that which was taken by a beast, they shall not eat, nor be defiled therewith. I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:15 But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh delight thee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee, in thy cities: whether it be unclean, that is to say, having blemish or defect: or clean, that is to say, sound and without blemish, such as may be offered, as the roe, and the hart, shalt thou eat it:

Deuteronomy 14:3-21 Eat not the things that are unclean. . . .

Acts 10:12-15 Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts and creeping things of the earth and fowls of the air. . . .

1 Timothy 4:3-5 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth. . . .

even.

Genesis 1:29,30 And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat: . . .

Psalm 104:14,15 Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: . . .

Romans 14:3,14,17,20 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:23,25,26,31 All things are lawful for me: but all things do not edify. . . .

Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths,

Colossians 2:16,21,22 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths, . . .

1 Timothy 4:3,4 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth. . . .

Context
The Covenant of the Rainbow
2And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand. 3And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:4Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.…
Cross References
1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

Genesis 1:29
And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat:

Genesis 9:2
And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.

Genesis 9:2
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