Gen 1:29 | NET2full | STEP | 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 .

Genesis 1:29

29 Then God said, “I now ^{▼▼tn The text uses הִנֵּה (hinneh), often archaically translated “behold.” It is often used to express the dramatic present, the immediacy of an event—“Look, this is what I am doing!”} 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. ^{▼▼sn G. J. Wenham (Genesis [WBC], 1:34) points out that there is nothing in the passage that prohibits the man and the woman from eating meat. He suggests that eating meat came after the fall. Gen 9:3 may then ratify the postfall practice of eating meat rather than inaugurate the practice, as is often understood.}