Genesis 121 9 audio sermon4/17/2024 ![]() ![]() It is used 424 times in 357 separate verses (in the New King James Version). The importance of the idea of blood in the Bible is shown by how often the word is used. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood: God also commanded Noah that if animals were killed and eaten, there must be a proper respect for the blood, which represents the life principle in the animal (Leviticus 17:11, 17:14 and Deuteronomy 12:23). “Did the horse know his own strength, and the weakness of the miserable wretch who unmercifully rides, drives, whips, goads, and oppresses him, would he not with one stroke of his hoof destroy his tyrant possessor? But while God hides these things from him he impresses his mind with the fear of his owner, so that… he is trained up for, and employed in, the most useful and important purposes.” (Clarke)ĭ. God did not put this fear in animals because man did not look to them as food. Again, presumably before the flood, man had a different relationship with the animals. For their protection, God put in them a fear of mankind. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth: If man now could and would eat animals, then God would help the animals. Therefore God gave man permission to eat meat.Ĭ. Perhaps this was because the earth was less productive agriculturally after the flood, because of the ecological changes mentioned in Genesis 9:1-3 and 8:22. Yet now, Noah received specific permission to eat animals, permission Adam was not given (as far as we know). Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you: Even as Adam received instructions for eating (Genesis 1:29, 2:15-17), so did Noah. God gave Noah the same kind of mandate He gave Adam in the beginning of creation (Genesis 1:28) since Noah essentially began all over again.ī. Be fruitful and multiply: The world Noah entered from the ark was significantly different from the world he knew before. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.”Ī. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. ![]() ![]() Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. (1-4) Instructions for living in a new world. ![]()
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