King James Version (KJV)

Genesis 9:3

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

Verse in context — Genesis 9

1

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

2

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.

3

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

4

But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

5

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.

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