Genesis 1:24

God also said, “Let the land produce living souls in their kind: cattle, and animals, and wild beasts of the earth, according to their species.” And so it became.

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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 it became evening and morning, the fifth day.

25And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their species, and the cattle, and every animal on the land, according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:14They and every animal according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and everything that moves upon the earth in their kind, and every flying thing according to its kind, all the birds and all that can fly,

Job 38:39Will you seize prey for the lioness, and will you sustain the lives of her young,

Job 39:5Who has set the wild ass free, and who has released his bonds?

Job 39:19Will you supply strength to the horse, or envelope his throat with neighing?

Psalms 50:9You will sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be cleansed. You will wash me, and I will be made whiter than snow.

Psalms 104:23And Israel entered into Egypt, and Jacob became a sojourner in the land of Ham.

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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