Genesis 9:9
"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant [H1285][G1242] with you, and with your offspring after you,
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Notes and References
Note from Colin Ayres:
Verse 3 where God gives us ‘animals’ to eat in this chapter is widely mistranslated and taken out context in modern society. The word for ‘animal’ here is not cow, pig, sheep or goat, it is REMES - this means CRAWLING THINGS. It is the cultural norms of the King James translators that missed this as eating insects was not normalised in their culture then or today. As such the misunderstanding continues.
This translation also answers the age-old criticism that atheists have that Noah could not have eaten animals to survive as there were only two of each. The logical answer is, of course, the Remes were the worms in the mud after the flood.
Vegans also do not support eating insects but this is where the doing as much as one practicably can in a survival situation comes into play. Indeed, what respect for cows and whew when there is no food and the people eat vegetation and worms.
Later, in times of plenty Hosea 6 vs 6 the word ‘Nemes’ becomes added to the covenant as well as protection for humans from war, as in times of plenty eating insects is not necessary
Note 1: (Colin Ayres July 2025): There is no use of the word STOCK in reference to animals in the Bible. The word is Behomah, H0929, cattle or beasts that often share in human suffering for sin, they suffer in times of drought and war just as humans do and the same in times of God punishment. In Matthew 21.12,, when Jesus rejected doves being sold in the Temple, this idea of selling lives was rejected.
Verse 3 where God gives us ‘animals’ to eat in this chapter is widely mistranslated and taken out context in modern society. The word for ‘animal’ here is not cow, pig, sheep or goat, it is REMES - this means CRAWLING THINGS. It is the cultural norms of the King James translators that missed this as eating insects was not normalised in their culture then or today. As such the misunderstanding continues.
This translation also answers the age-old criticism that atheists have that Noah could not have eaten animals to survive as there were only two of each. The logical answer is, of course, the Remes were the worms in the mud after the flood.
Vegans also do not support eating insects but this is where the doing as much as one practicably can in a survival situation comes into play. Indeed, what respect for cows and whew when there is no food and the people eat vegetation and worms.
Later, in times of plenty Hosea 6 vs 6 the word ‘Nemes’ becomes added to the covenant as well as protection for humans from war, as in times of plenty eating insects is not necessary
Note 1: (Colin Ayres July 2025): There is no use of the word STOCK in reference to animals in the Bible. The word is Behomah, H0929, cattle or beasts that often share in human suffering for sin, they suffer in times of drought and war just as humans do and the same in times of God punishment. In Matthew 21.12,, when Jesus rejected doves being sold in the Temple, this idea of selling lives was rejected.