In Bereshit 4:4, Hevel offers his choicest sheep as a sacrifice to G-d.
However, in Bereshit 1:29-30, Adam is told he is only allowed to eat vegetables, and Rashi explains that he was forbidden to kill meat (There are different opinions about what exactly is forbidden, but the Mizrachi explains that Rashi is saying that Adam was forbidden to kill living things - see here as well). Later, G-d gave Noach permission to kill and eat meat.
If Hevel was not allowed to kill meat, how was he allowed to offer an animal as a sacrifice?
Answer
even according to the mizrachi... he only says that the reason for the meat being asur was that he killed it but maybe it was only asur if he intended to eat it... also, its possible that hevel brought a live animal and hashem devoured it with fire so hevel would not have killed anything.
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