Genesis 1:24

And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.' And it was so.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 thing that creepeth upon 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 creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort.

Job 38:39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lioness? Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

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

Job 39:19Hast thou given the horse his strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with fierceness?

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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