29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing 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 ll be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
COMMENTARY: Meat meant "food" in the early seventeenth century, when the KJV was translated. No actual animal flesh was condoned until after the Flood in Genesis 9:3: God saw is an expression in anthropomorphic terms relating His evaluation of His Creation (cf. 6:5; 11:5). Now at the end of His Creation work. He says it was very good, "exceedingly good" and not simply "good" as before in the chapter. In the light of this statement, it is difficult to believe that the earth was already under the control of a fallen angel, Satan, and that the crust of the earth was filled with the fossils of creatures that had previously been destroyed (the Gap Theory).
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