Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;Genesis 9:3 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleEvery 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 continued to all his posterity ever since. It is not likely that this grant would have been now made if some extraordinary alteration had not taken place in the vegetable world, so as to render its productions less nutritive than they were before; and probably such a change in the constitution of man as to render a grosser and higher diet necessary. We may therefore safely infer that the earth was less productive after the flood than it was before, and that the human constitution was greatly impaired by the alterations which had taken place through the whole economy of nature. Morbid debility, induced by an often unfriendly state of the atmosphere, with sore and long-continued labor, would necessarily require a higher nutriment than vegetables could supply. That this was the case appears sufficiently clear from the grant of animal food, which, had it not been indispensably necessary, had not been made. That the constitution of man was then much altered appears in the greatly contracted lives of the postdiluvians; yet from the deluge to the day of Abraham the lives of several of the patriarchs amounted to some hundreds of years; but this was the effect of a peculiar providence, that the new world might be the more speedily repeopled.
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Leviticus 11:1-47 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them...
Leviticus 22:8 That which dies of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith; I am the LORD.
Deuteronomy 12:15 Notwithstanding you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatever your soul lusts after...
Deuteronomy 14:3-21 You shall not eat any abominable thing...
Acts 10:12-15 Wherein were all manner of four footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air...
1 Timothy 4:3-5 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats...
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Genesis 1:29,30 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree...
Psalm 104:14,15 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Romans 14:3,14,17,20 Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him which eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him...
1 Corinthians 10:23,25,26,31 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not...
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Colossians 2:16,21,22 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days...
1 Timothy 4:3,4 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats...
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