Kejadian 1:29

1:29 Then God said, “I now ¹  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. ² 

Kejadian 19:25

19:25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, ³  including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew ⁴  from the ground.

Kejadian 26:12

26:12 When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, ⁵  because the Lord blessed him. ⁶ 

[1:29]  ¹ 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!”

[1:29]  ² 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.

[19:25]  ³ tn Or “and all the plain”; Heb “and all the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

[19:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the vegetation of the ground.”

[26:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “a hundredfold.”

[26:12]  ⁶ tn This final clause explains why Isaac had such a bountiful harvest.