Genesis 1:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

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  • Gen 9:3 : 3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time. 16 By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.
  • Ps 136:25 : 25 Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
  • Ps 104:14-15 : 14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth; 15 And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
  • Ps 104:27-28 : 27 All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time. 28 They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.
  • Ps 111:5 : 5 He has given food to his worshippers; he will keep his agreement in mind for ever.
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
  • Gen 2:16 : 16 And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
  • Job 36:31 : 31 For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.
  • Ps 24:1 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.
  • Ps 146:7 : 7 Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;
  • Ps 147:9 : 9 He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.
  • Isa 33:16 : 16 He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
  • Hos 2:8 : 8 For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.
  • Matt 6:11 : 11 Give us this day bread for our needs.
  • Matt 6:25-26 : 25 So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing? 26 See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.
  • Acts 17:24-25 : 24 The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands; 25 And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

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  • Gen 1:30-31
    2 verses
    90%

    30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

    31 And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

  • Gen 9:1-4
    4 verses
    84%

    1 And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

    2 And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.

    3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

    4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

  • Gen 1:11-12
    2 verses
    82%

    11 And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

    12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 2:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15 And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

    16 And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

    17 But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

  • Gen 1:24-28
    5 verses
    78%

    24 And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

    25 And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

    26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

    27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

    28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

  • Gen 3:17-19
    3 verses
    76%

    17 And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

    18 Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

    19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

  • Gen 2:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8 And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

    9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  • Gen 6:21
    75%

    21 And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.

  • Ps 104:14
    74%

    14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

  • Lev 25:7
    73%

    7 And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

  • Gen 1:22
    73%

    22 And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

  • Gen 2:19
    72%

    19 And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

  • Gen 2:5
    71%

    5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

  • Isa 30:23
    71%

    23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

  • Gen 3:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1 Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?

    2 And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:

    3 But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.

  • Lev 19:25
    71%

    25 But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 11:15
    70%

    15 And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

  • Dan 4:12
    70%

    12 Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.

  • Gen 3:6
    69%

    6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

  • Gen 8:17
    69%

    17 Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

  • Gen 9:10
    69%

    10 And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.

  • Gen 9:7
    69%

    7 And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

  • Ps 104:27
    69%

    27 All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.

  • Dan 4:21
    69%

    21 Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places:

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    69%

    29 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of their fruit.

  • Jer 29:5
    69%

    5 Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;

  • Gen 3:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22 And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

    23 So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.

  • Ezek 47:12
    69%

    12 And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.

  • Ps 107:37
    69%

    37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

  • Gen 3:12
    68%

    12 And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.