Genesis 1:29-30

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• Vulgate Text: Genesis 1:1-31 — Full Vulgate text quoted

  "29. And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your food; 30. and to all beasts of the earth"

• Verse 29: Behold I Have Given You Every Herb for Food — Men up to the flood ate herbs and fruits, abstaining from meat and wine; lived 900 years

  "29. BEHOLD I HAVE GIVEN YOU EVERY HERB FOR FOOD. — "I have given," that is, "I give": for the Hebrews use the past tense for the present"

• Verse 24: Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature — Junilius says that since God gave herbs for food, the earth brought forth nothing harmful originally

  ""From the fact, he says, that God said: Behold I have given you every herb, it is clear that the earth brought forth nothing harmful, no poisonous herb, and no barren tree. Second, that not even birds lived by seizing weaker birds"