Kejadian 9:3

9:3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. ¹  As I gave you ²  the green plants, I now give ³  you everything.

Kejadian 3:18

3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

but you will eat the grain ⁴  of the field.

Kejadian 19:25

19:25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, ⁵  including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew ⁶  from the ground.

Kejadian 1:11

1:11 God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: ⁷  plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, ⁸  and ⁹  trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” It was so.

Kejadian 1:30

1:30 And 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 ¹⁰  every green plant for food.” It was so.

[9:3]  ¹ tn Heb “every moving thing that lives for you will be for food.”

[9:3]  ² tn The words “I gave you” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[9:3]  ³ tn The perfect verb form describes the action that accompanies the declaration.

[3:18]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term עֵשֶׂב (’esev), when referring to human food, excludes grass (eaten by cattle) and woody plants like vines.

[19:25]  ⁵ tn Or “and all the plain”; Heb “and all the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

[19:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the vegetation of the ground.”

[1:11]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew construction employs a cognate accusative, where the nominal object (“vegetation”) derives from the verbal root employed. It stresses the abundant productivity that God created.

[1:11]  sn Vegetation. The Hebrew word translated “vegetation” (דֶּשֶׁא, deshe’) normally means “grass,” but here it probably refers more generally to vegetation that includes many of the plants and trees. In the verse the plants and the trees are qualified as self-perpetuating with seeds, but not the word “vegetation,” indicating it is the general term and the other two terms are sub-categories of it. Moreover, in vv. 29 and 30 the word vegetation/grass does not appear. The Samaritan Pentateuch adds an “and” before the fruit trees, indicating it saw the arrangement as bipartite (The Samaritan Pentateuch tends to eliminate asyndetic constructions).

[1:11]  ⁸ sn After their kinds. The Hebrew word translated “kind” (מִין, min) indicates again that God was concerned with defining and dividing time, space, and species. The point is that creation was with order, as opposed to chaos. And what God created and distinguished with boundaries was not to be confused (see Lev 19:19 and Deut 22:9-11).

[1:11]  ⁹ tn The conjunction “and” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation to clarify the relationship of the clauses.

[1:30]  ¹⁰ tn The phrase “I give” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation for clarification.