Genesis B, also known as The Later Genesis, is a text of Genesis, one of the poems in Old English included in the partially illustrated Junius Manuscript, which has been held in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford since 1677.
The poems in the Junius Manuscript (which was named after the scholar who owned, studied and first published the manuscript in 1655) are among the "best of the Anglo-Saxon corpus"
Read more about Genesis B: Outline, Content and Controversy Surrounding The Text, Goals in Translation
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“Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
—Bible: Hebrew Genesis 1:29.
But in a later context, God told the disgraced Adam, “and thou shalt eat the herb of the field” (Genesis 3:18)