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Genesis 1:21

And God created the great sea creatures, and everything with a living soul and the ability to move that the waters produced, according to their species, and all the flying creatures, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

20And then God said, “Let the waters produce animals with a living soul, and flying creatures above the earth, under the firmament of heaven.”

22And he blessed them, saying: “Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea. And let the birds be multiplied above the land.”

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Cross References

Genesis 1:18and to rule over the day as well as the night, and to divide light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:31And God saw everything that he had made. And they were very good. And it became evening and morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 6:20from birds, according to their kind, and from beasts, in their kind, and from among all animals on earth, according to their kind; pairs from each shall enter with you, so that they may be able to live.

Genesis 8:17Bring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh: as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it.”

Genesis 9:7But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it.”

Exodus 8:3And the river will seethe with frogs, which will go up and enter into your house, and your bedroom, and upon your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens, and into the remains of your foods.

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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