Did God Change the Rules After the Flood? truthsum.org
Many assume that God introduced clean and unclean animal distinctions at Mount Sinai and that meat-eating began only after the flood. But Scripture tells a different story – one of continuity, not change.
In Genesis 7:2, God tells Noah to bring seven pairs of every clean animal and one pair of every unclean. This proves the distinction already existed and that Noah understood it without explanation. After the flood, Noah offers burnt sacrifices of every clean animal (Genesis 8:20), reinforcing that these categories were both known and significant long before Sinai.
Genesis 9:3 – “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you” – is often interpreted as a new dietary allowance. But the structure mirrors Genesis 1:29, where God gave “every green plant” – clearly not referring to poisonous ones. Likewise, “every moving thing” would naturally be understood within the established clean/unclean framework.
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