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In conventional translations of Genesis 1:30, the English pronoun and verb “I give” (equivalent to
) is added by translators. In so doing, the 
('êth, Strong’s H853) is assumed to designate green herbs as the direct object (i.e., the gift from Elohim) of the inferred verb, with animals assumed to be the indirect object (i.e., the gift recipients).