Genesis 1:24

God said, “Let the land produce living creatures, each one according to its own kind—the livestock, the creatures that run along the ground, and the wild animals, each one according to its own kind.” And that's what happened.

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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

23So there was evening, and then the morning, making day five.

25God made the wild animals, the livestock, and the creatures that run along the ground, all according to their own kind. God saw that it was good.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:14They had with them every kind of wild animals, livestock, creatures that run along the ground, and birds—everything with wings.

Job 38:39Can you hunt prey for the lion? Can you feed the lion cubs

Job 39:5Who gave the wild donkey its freedom? Who set it free from its bonds?

Job 39:19Did you give the horse its strength? Did you place a mane upon its neck?

Psalms 50:9I do not require bulls from your barns or goats from your pens,

Psalms 104:23Then people leave for work, working 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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