Genesis 1:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

bearing seed... yielding seed. Heb, "seeding seed". Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6) for emph.

for meat. Not flesh till after the Flood (Genesis 9:3).

Genesis 1:29

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearingg seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.