Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Genesis 9:3
Every (c) moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
(c) By this permission man may with a good conscience use the creatures of God for his needs.
Every (c) moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
(c) By this permission man may with a good conscience use the creatures of God for his needs.
Verse Genesis 9:3. _EVERY MOVING THING - SHALL BE MEAT_] There is no positive evidence that _animal_ food was ever used _before_ the flood. Noah had the first grant of this kind, and it has been cont...
- The Blessing of Noah 2. מורא _môrā'_, “fear, reverence, awful deed.” חת _chat_, “dread, breaking of the courage.” Noah is saved from the deluge. His life is twice given to him by God. He had foun...
CHAPTER 9 The Earth Replenished _ 1. The divine commission (Genesis 9:1)_ 2. The covenant with Noah (Genesis 9:8) 3. The token of the covenant (Genesis 9:12) 4. The family of Noah ...
From P. The links between Genesis 9:1 and P's creation story are very close; the command to multiply, the dominion of man over the animals, the regulations as to food may be specially mentioned, as we...
EVERY... ALL. Figure of speech _Epanadiplosis_ (App-6), for emphasis. Same word in Hebrew....
_Every moving thing_ P assumes here that all animals are capable of furnishing food for man, and that there is no distinction between "clean" and "unclean" in the pre-Mosaic dispensation. _as the gree...
5. _The Beginning of the Beginning Again_ (Genesis 9:1-7): _The New World-Order._ (This last felicitous phrase is borrowed from Skinner, ICCG, 169). And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto th...
_EVERY MOVING THING THAT LIVETH SHALL BE MEAT FOR YOU; EVEN AS THE GREEN HERB HAVE I GIVEN YOU ALL THINGS._ Every moving thing ... meat for you. The third part concerns the means of sustaining life:...
THE DIVINE BLESSING AND COVENANT. NOAH AND THE VINE. THE CURSE OF CANAAN 1-7. The primeval benediction of man (Genesis 1:28) is now repeated and enlarged. Animal food is allowed (cp. Genesis 1:29), bu...
THE FLOOD This narrative records the judgment of God upon the sinful forefathers of mankind, and His preservation of a righteous family, in whom the divine purposes for men might be carried out. The s...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 9 GOD MAKES AN AGREEMENT WITH NOAH V1 And God promised good things to Noah and to his sons. He said to them, ‘Have large families. Increase so th...
כָּל ־רֶ֨מֶשׂ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הוּא ־חַ֔י לָכֶ֥ם יִהְ
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
GOD'S COVENANT WITH NOAH Genesis 9:1 As the human race started afresh on its career, God blessed it, as at the first. God always stands with us in a new start. The prohibition against the use of bloo...
The new order in human affairs was initiated by the bestowment of a blessing on Noah and his sons. The first note of change is seen in the word which declared man's relation to the lower orders. In Ed...
_Meat. The more religious, at least, had hitherto abstained from flesh, being content with herbs, &c.: which had been expressly granted. Now, the salt waters of the deluge had vitiated the earth, its...
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. Liveth; that is, fit for food, 1 Timothy 4:4....
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
3._Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you_. The Lord proceeds further, and grants animals for food to men, that they may eat their flesh. And because Moses now first relates that this ri...
In chapter 9 begins the history of the new earth. God blesses the earth more than before; and the answer to the sweet savour of the sacrifice assures the world that a universal deluge will never recur...
EVERY MOVING THING THAT LIVETH SHALL BE MEAT FOR YOU,.... That is, every beast, fowl, and fish, without exception; for though there was a difference at this time of clean and unclean creatures with re...
_Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things._ Ver. 3. _Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you._] God of his goodness grants...
_Every moving thing_ Which is wholesome and fit for food, _shall be meat for you: That liveth_ This may be added to exclude the use of those creatures which died of themselves, or were killed by wild...
1 God blesseth Noah. 4 Blood and murder are forbidden. 9 Gods Couenant 13 signified by the Rainebow. 18 Noah replenisheth the world, 20 planteth a Vineyard, 21 is drunken, and mocked of his sonn...
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. In the early days of the human race God had restricted man to a vegetarian diet, Genesis 1:29,...
God blesses Noah and His Sons...
FOURTH PART THE GENESIS OF THE NEW, WORLD-HISTORICAL, HUMAN RACE; OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE FORM OF SIN THAT NOW COMES IN, AND OF THE NEW FORM OF PIETY; OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BLESSING OF SHEM...
A NEW BEGINNING FOR MAN The earth itself having been purged by water, furnishing a totally new condition of circumstances for mankind and animals, now God establishes man in a new dispensation of thin...
1-3 The blessing of God is the cause of our doing well. On him we depend, to him we should be thankful. Let us not forget the advantage and pleasure we have from the labour of beasts, and which their...
EVERY MOVING THING which is wholesome and fit for food, and clean; an exception to be gathered both from the nature of the thing, and from the distinction of clean and unclean beasts, mentioned before...
Genesis 9:3 thing H7431 lives H2416 food H402 given H5414 (H8804) green H3418 herbs H6212 Every -...
GOD'S DETAILED INSTRUCTION TO NOAH AND HIS SONS (GENESIS 9:1) In this whole passage God is Elohim, the Creator, for He is as it were beginning again, and reinstating man as His representatives on eart...
Genesis 9:3 How are we to use the creation of God so that it may help towards our own supreme object? (1) We can _study_created things; we can see God Himself through them. (2) We may _use_God's creat...
CONTENTS: Noamic covenant. Noah's shame and Ham's sin. CHARACTERS: Noah and family. CONCLUSION: The believer is as secure as God's promises are true. No promise of God can fail. KEY WORD: Covenant,...
Genesis 9:4. _But the blood ye shall not eat._ This prohibition of blood is repeated. Leviticus 17; Deuteronomy 12. And being connected with murder in the following verse, we are taught to abstain fro...
_God blessed Noah and his sons_ THE DIVINE BENEDICTION ON THE NEW HUMANITY I. PROVISION FOR THE CONTINUANCE OF ITS PHYSICAL LIFE. This divinely appointed provision for the continuance of man upon th...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 9:1 The earlier positive instruction that humans should exercise authority over the other living creatures (Genesis 1:28) is replaced by the negative comment that those creatur...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 9:1. God] Heb. _Elohim_. BLESSED] Similar to the blessing pronounced upon Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:28.— GENESIS 9:2. THE FEAR OF YOU, AND THE DREAD OF YOU] The fear of you, as...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 9:1 AND GOD—_Elohim_, not because belonging to the Elohistic document (Block, Tuch, Colcnso); but rather because throughout this section the Deity is exhibited in his relations to...
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the eaRuth (Genesis 9:1). And so the commandment that was given to Adam at the beginning is now given to Noah...
Every. Leviticus 11:1 Leviticus 22:8 Deuteronomy 12:15 Deuteronomy 14:3...
THE EARTH RENEWED AND BLESSED Genesis 9:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us give you some of the parallelisms which are found between Noachic times and events, and those which will mark the last days. Some...
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you — Hitherto man had been confined to feed only upon the products of the earth, fruits, herbs and roots, and all sorts of corn and milk; so was the f...
Did God ordain the eating of meat or only plants? PROBLEM: When God created Adam, He commanded him to eat only “every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth … to you it shall be f...