A Covenant Making God
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Genesis 9:1-17. Let’s go!
Genesis 9:1-4 (NIV)
1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands.
3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
On verses 1-4: In verse 1 God gives Noah and his sons a near identical commission to the one God gave Adam in Genesis 1:28: “Be fruitful, increase in number, fill the earth”. God also gave humans authority over the entire animal kingdom (“they are given in your hands” – v2b). Meat is now explicitly okay to eat in addition to vegetables (v3), although God demands that special respect be paid to the lifeblood of the animal.