Passage, Paragraph, and Prayer

Animals Explicitly Given as Food (Genesis 9:1–3)

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Season 6 Episode 67

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Genesis 4:2–4 seems to strongly suggest that humans were already eating meat from animals before the Flood. So why does God specifically sanction the human eating of meat after the Flood? And why does he only give one restriction here, when he gives many more later?

Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten,” aria from “Jesu, der du meine Seele,” BWV 78 (Leipzig, 1724).