Genesis 1:24

And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

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In The King James Version

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

In Context

23And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

25And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:14And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

Job 39:5\39:2\Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

Job 39:19\39:16\She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

Psalms 50:9I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks;

Psalms 104:23Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:21-24

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the… Read the whole commentary →

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