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Library / Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume I

Book Four — the creation of the first human beings

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all the trees which have in themselves the seed of their own kind, that they may be to you for food, and to all the living things of the earth, and to every bird of Heaven, and to all that move upon the earth, and in which there is a living soul, that they may have to feed upon. GENESIS CH. 1, VERSE 29

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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all the trees which have in themselves the seed of their own kind, that they may be to you for food, and to all the living things of the earth, and to every bird of Heaven, and to all that move upon the earth, and in which there is a living soul, that they may have to feed upon. GENESIS CH. 1, VERSE 29.1

Dixítque Deus, Ecce dedi vobis omnem herbam afferentem semen super terram, & vniuersa ligna quae habent in semetipsis sementem generis sui, vt sint vobis in escam, & cunctis animantibus terrae, omniáque volucri Coeli, & vniuersis quae mouentur in terra, & in quibus est anima viuens, vt habeant ad vescendum. GEN. C. 1. VERS. 29.

Translator’s notes

  1. Lemma (Gen 1:29), the grant of the plants for food to man and the animals. ↩