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3416.— Every Living Thing

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 18, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 16.

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3416.— Every Living Thing

Please explain Gen. 9:3: "Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all." This seems to be contrary to the command for the clean and unclean animals.
The only food that man had to eat immediately after the Flood was clean animals. There were fourteen of each of these preserved in the ark. There was only one pair each of the unclean. The Lord took in man's absolute necessities.