Genesis 6:21
Good News Translation
Take along all kinds of food for you and for them."

New Revised Standard Version
Also take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it up; and it shall serve as food for you and for them.”

Contemporary English Version
Store up enough food both for yourself and for them.

New American Bible
Moreover, you are to provide yourself with all the food that is to be eaten, and store it away, that it may serve as provisions for you and for them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.

Genesis 1:29,30 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 meat: . . .

Job 38:41 Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

Job 40:20 To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.

Psalm 35:6 Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.

Psalm 104:27,28 All expect of thee that thou give them food in season. . . .

Psalm 136:25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalm 145:16 Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature.

Psalm 147:9 Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

Matthew 6:26 Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?

Context
Noah Builds the Ark
20Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live. 21Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.22And Noe did all things which God commanded him.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:29
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 meat:

Genesis 1:30
And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon. And it was so done.

Genesis 6:20
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