Genesis 1:24

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

Darby Translation

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 a fifth day.

25And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:14they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and all fowl after its kind every bird of every wing.

Job 38:39Dost thou hunt the prey for the lioness, and dost thou satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

Job 39:5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,

Job 39:19Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?

Psalms 50:9I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds:

Psalms 104:23Man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour until 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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