Genesis 1:31

God saw everything that he had created, and yes, it was very good. So there was evening, and then the morning, making day six.

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In The King James Version

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

In Context

30I'm giving all the green plants to all the land animals, to the birds, and to every creature that moves on the earth—to every living thing.” And that's what happened.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:8God called the expanse, “sky.” So there was evening, and then the morning, making day two.

Genesis 1:19So there was evening, and then the morning, making day four.

Genesis 2:2By the time the seventh day came, God had finished the work he'd done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work he'd been doing.

Exodus 20:11For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days, and then rested on the seventh day. That's why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Job 38:7when the stars of the morning sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.

Psalms 104:24Lord, how many different things you have made—all of them wisely created! The earth is full of your creatures.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:30-31

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. We have here the third part of the sixth day's work, which was not any new creation, but a… Read the whole commentary →

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