Genesis 6:21

6:21 And you must take ¹  for yourself every kind of food ²  that is eaten, ³  and gather it together. ⁴  It will be food for you and for them.

Genesis 9:3

9:3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. ⁵  As I gave you ⁶  the green plants, I now give ⁷  you everything.

Genesis 1:29-30

1:29 Then God said, “I now ⁸  give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ⁹  1:30 And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground – everything that has the breath of life in it – I give ¹⁰  every green plant for food.” It was so.

¹ tn The verb is a direct imperative: “And you, take for yourself.” The form stresses the immediate nature of the instruction; the pronoun underscores the directness.

² tn Heb “from all food,” meaning “some of every kind of food.”

³ tn Or “will be eaten.”

⁴ tn Heb “and gather it to you.”

⁵ tn Heb “every moving thing that lives for you will be for food.”

⁶ tn The words “I gave you” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn The perfect verb form describes the action that accompanies the declaration.

⁹ tn The text uses הִנֵּה (hinneh), often archaically translated “behold.” It is often used to express the dramatic present, the immediacy of an event – “Look, this is what I am doing!”

¹⁰ sn G. J. Wenham (Genesis [WBC], 1:34) points out that there is nothing in the passage that prohibits the man and the woman from eating meat. He suggests that eating meat came after the fall. Gen 9:3 may then ratify the postfall practice of eating meat rather than inaugurate the practice, as is often understood.

¹³ tn The phrase “I give” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation for clarification.