GENESIS 1:29
And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. [Genesis 1:29 NKJV]
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food. [BSB]
This was the first time God revealed Himself to Mankind in the Bible, using first Person single pronoun, "I" or "I Am." God began to use "I" to pronounce or announce Himself, when God began to feed Mankind in the Bible. According to this Bible verse above, God said, "See, I have…" or "Behold, I have…" God structured this sentence for the people to first see "I" (God) and then see what "I have" (what God has/had), before seeing "I have given you" (what God Himself had first but gave to us humans). It's important for us to see "I have" (God has) them first, before seeing "I have given you" (God had but gave them to us). Man was created in the Image of God, after His Likeness: and therefore, it's important for the man to see God having what God gives the man; and important for the man not having what God Himself neither has to Himself nor gave to man.
Bible Teacher:
This act of God introducing the use of "I am" or "I have" while communicating food to His Offspring here is reflected in the way a Hen introduced food to her chicks.
*. As God had to "I have" the new Foodstuff first before giving them to Mankind, so did the Hen "I had" new seeds/food by picking them up and making special communication to the chicks and then dropping (giving) them on the ground to the chicks to pick and eat. That is, the chicks had to see her picking the new food with her mouth as if she herself would eat the food but she would not swallow the food because she wants to give them what she already had with her own mouth or tasted before; just as a cupbearer gives to a King the wine he has already tasted and ascertained as good and safe for consumption.
The Lord is my Shepherd also means when He makes me lie down in green pastures, I should not begin eating the green pastures, but wait and follow Him until He sets a table before me in the presence of my enemies and He gives me the sign to eat from His Table and cup, not from the green pastures or still waters. (Psalms 23).
I say this because He said, "My Sheep hear and follow My Voice, not the voice of strangers nor the appetite for any food they see around." I have seen cows ignored following its pastor because it saw some enticing grasses/food at the other corner and went for them, without the pastor leading the cow there. Many cattle fell into traps of predators by following enticements of food without heeding the voices or signs of warning and reasoning. But behold the chicks in the first week do not preempt their mother hen to go for food or eat anything they see another animal eating, unless they saw their mother willing to eat and give to them as sign.
Commentaries:
In this Bible Text, the Herbs God gave to Mankind were found all over the surface of the earth in any part of the earth, even including places no man was or has been to were those herbs available. But the fruit trees were basically restricted to the Garden, to few vineyards and few selected places. If Mankind lose the Garden of Eden, he would lose the fruit trees and have to till the ground to eat; but there will still be herbs outside the Garden and virtually everywhere for mankind.
The Herbs (Vegetables) are for healings, nutrients and services, of mankind; but the fruit trees are for food proper for strength:
[Psalms 104:14-15] — "He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that the man may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart."
Bible Teacher:
In the New Heaven and Earth where all places are Paradise, there would still be need for vegetable/herb, which are basically the leaves of the Tree of Life, for healing of the nations and people even when there shall be neither sickness nor disease [Revelation 22:2]. When God gave Mankind these herbs yielding seeds, there was no curse nor sickness, but yet there were needs for the herbs, medicine or healings, of the herbs in the world where all things were very good.
Mankind did not transgress by eating any herb on earth or in paradise, but mankind transgressed by eating from a forbidden Tree that had fruits that do not meet up with this criterion described by God above: Viz: "Fruits yielding seeds." The forbidden fruit was not a fruit yielding seed, but was a fruit yielding sin and death.