Genesis 9:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 Also the [a]fear of you, and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the heaven, upon all that moveth on the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.
3 Everything [b]that moveth and liveth, shall be meat for you: as the (A)green herb, have I given you all things.
4 (B)[c]But flesh with the life thereof, I mean, with the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
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- Genesis 9:2 By the virtue of this commandment beasts rage not so much against man as they would, yea, and many serve to his use thereby.
- Genesis 9:3 By this permission man may with a good conscience use the creatures of God for his necessity.
- Genesis 9:4 That is, living creatures, and the flesh of beasts that are strangled: and hereby all cruelty is forbidden.
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