Genesis 1:29

Then God said, “I now ¹  give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ² 

Ge 2:16; Ge 9:3; Job 36:31; Ps 24:1; Ps 104:14,15,27,28; Ps 111:5; Ps 115:16; Ps 136:25; Ps 145:15,16; Ps 146:7; Ps 147:9; Isa 33:16; Ho 2:8; Mt 6:11,25,26; Ac 14:17; Ac 17:24,25,28; 1Ti 6:17

¹ tn The text uses הִנֵּה (hinneh), often archaically translated “behold.” It is often used to express the dramatic present, the immediacy of an event – “Look, this is what I am doing!”

² sn G. J. Wenham (Genesis [WBC], 1:34) points out that there is nothing in the passage that prohibits the man and the woman from eating meat. He suggests that eating meat came after the fall. Gen 9:3 may then ratify the postfall practice of eating meat rather than inaugurate the practice, as is often understood.