Genesis 1:29

World English Bible (2000)

God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

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  • Gen 9:3 : 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. 16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
  • Ps 136:25 : 25 Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • Ps 104:14-15 : 14 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth: 15 wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
  • Ps 104:27-28 : 27 These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. 28 You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
  • Ps 111:5 : 5 He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men.
  • Gen 2:16 : 16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
  • Job 36:31 : 31 For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
  • Ps 24:1 : 1 The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.
  • Ps 146:7 : 7 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
  • Ps 147:9 : 9 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
  • Isa 33:16 : 16 he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
  • Hos 2:8 : 8 For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
  • Matt 6:11 : 11 Give us today our daily bread.
  • Matt 6:25-26 : 25 Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
  • Acts 17:24-25 : 24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, 25 neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 1:30-31
    2 verses
    90%

    30To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.

    31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

  • Gen 9:1-4
    4 verses
    84%

    1God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

    2The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

    3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

    4But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

  • Gen 1:11-12
    2 verses
    82%

    11God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

    12The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

  • Gen 2:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

    16Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

    17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

  • Gen 1:24-28
    5 verses
    78%

    24God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

    25God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

    26God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

    27God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

    28God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

  • Gen 3:17-19
    3 verses
    76%

    17To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

    18Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

    19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

  • Gen 2:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

    9Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  • Gen 6:21
    75%

    21Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

  • Ps 104:14
    74%

    14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:

  • Lev 25:7
    73%

    7For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

  • Gen 1:22
    73%

    22God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

  • Gen 2:19
    72%

    19Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

  • Gen 2:5
    71%

    5No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

  • Isa 30:23
    71%

    23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

  • Gen 3:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"

    2The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

    3but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"

  • Lev 19:25
    71%

    25In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 11:15
    70%

    15I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

  • Dan 4:12
    70%

    12The leaves of it were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

  • Gen 3:6
    69%

    6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

  • Gen 8:17
    69%

    17Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

  • Gen 9:10
    69%

    10and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

  • Gen 9:7
    69%

    7Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

  • Ps 104:27
    69%

    27These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

  • Dan 4:21
    69%

    21whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    69%

    29"'This shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.

  • Jer 29:5
    69%

    5Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

  • Gen 3:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

    23Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

  • Ezek 47:12
    69%

    12By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.

  • Ps 107:37
    69%

    37sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

  • Gen 3:12
    68%

    12The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."