Genesis 1:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

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  • Gen 9:3 : 3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis. 16 You open your hand, and fill every living thing with the food they desire.
  • Ps 136:25 : 25 to the one who gives food to all living things, for his loyal love endures.
  • Ps 104:14-15 : 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground, 15 as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said,‘For we too are his offspring.’
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Command those who are rich in this world’s goods not to be haughty or to set their hope on riches, which are uncertain, but on God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.
  • Ps 104:27-28 : 27 All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis. 28 You give food to them and they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with food.
  • Ps 111:5 : 5 He gives food to his faithful followers; he always remembers his covenant.
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind.
  • Gen 2:16 : 16 Then the LORD God commanded the man,“You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,
  • Job 36:31 : 31 It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance.
  • Ps 24:1 : 1 A psalm of David. The LORD owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it.
  • Ps 146:7 : 7 vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The LORD releases the imprisoned.
  • Ps 147:9 : 9 He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.
  • Isa 33:16 : 16 This is the person who will live in a secure place; he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; he will have food and a constant supply of water.
  • Hos 2:8 : 8 Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel Yet until now she has refused to acknowledge that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and that it was I who lavished on her the silver and gold– which they used in worshiping Baal!
  • Matt 6:11 : 11 Give us today our daily bread,
  • Matt 6:25-26 : 25 Do Not Worry“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing? 26 Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”
  • Acts 17:24-25 : 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

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  • Gen 1:30-31
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    90%

    30And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground– everything that has the breath of life in it– I give every green plant for food.” It was so.

    31God saw all that he had made– and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

  • Gen 9:1-4
    4 verses
    84%

    1God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

    2Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.

    3You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

    4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.

  • Gen 1:11-12
    2 verses
    82%

    11God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.

    12The land produced vegetation– plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 2:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

    16Then the LORD God commanded the man,“You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

    17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”

  • Gen 1:24-28
    5 verses
    78%

    24God said,“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

    25God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

    26Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”

    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

    28God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

  • Gen 3:17-19
    3 verses
    76%

    17But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

    18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.

    19By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

  • Gen 2:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

    9The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

  • Gen 6:21
    75%

    21And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.”

  • Ps 104:14
    74%

    14He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

  • Lev 25:7
    73%

    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

  • Gen 1:22
    73%

    22God blessed them and said,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

  • Gen 2:19
    72%

    19The LORD God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

  • Gen 2:5
    71%

    5Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

  • Isa 30:23
    71%

    23He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

  • Gen 3:1-3
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    71%

    1The Temptation and the Fall Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman,“Is it really true that God said,‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?”

    2The woman said to the serpent,“We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;

    3but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said,‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’”

  • Lev 19:25
    71%

    25Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 11:15
    70%

    15I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

  • Dan 4:12
    70%

    12Its foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful; on it there was food enough for all. Under it the wild animals used to seek shade, and in its branches the birds of the sky used to nest. All creatures used to feed themselves from it.

  • Gen 3:6
    69%

    6When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

  • Gen 8:17
    69%

    17Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”

  • Gen 9:10
    69%

    10and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you– every living creature of the earth.

  • Gen 9:7
    69%

    7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

  • Ps 104:27
    69%

    27All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis.

  • Dan 4:21
    69%

    21whose foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful, and from which there was food available for all, under whose branches wild animals used to live, and in whose branches birds of the sky used to nest–

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    69%

    29This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.

  • Jer 29:5
    69%

    5‘Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.

  • Gen 3:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

    23So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

  • Ezek 47:12
    69%

    12On both sides of the river’s banks, every kind of tree will grow for food. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruit fail, but they will bear fruit every month, because their water source flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”

  • Ps 107:37
    69%

    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

  • Gen 3:12
    68%

    12The man said,“The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”