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Thanks, Bro. Blume. I did know that Noah's name meant rest.

I see the difference in the garden - eating the fruit and in Noah - adding the meat as well. That is still a bit of a toil, isn't it? Wasn't Esau exhausted from his hunting trip and sold his birthright for a bowl of beans? LOL!

Genesis 8:21 KJV And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Would the rest simply be referring to the flood and God promising that would not happen again?

Thanks for the scriptures that link similarities to Adam and Noah.

I liked this as well:

I once saw a thought there of how the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil had one thing in it that the others did not have - DESIRE TO MAKE ONE WISE. And it was the killer. Same with Noah's meat. The forbidden meat had one thing in it the others did not have -- blood. So the meat with animal blood in it is spiritually similar to the forbidden fruit. And it shows a beautiful message. Meat must have the BLOOD SHED in order for man to not die. This of course reminds us of the cross. Jesus' shed blood. Fruit of Life!

Thanks again! Seriously, I knew you would be the first to respond to this thread! LOL!