Genesis 1:24

And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.

Leeser Tanakh

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 was evening and it was morning, the fifth day.

25And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird, every thing that hath wings.

Job 38:39Dost thou hunt for the lioness her prey? and suppliest thou the food for the young lions,

Job 39:5Who sent out the wild ass free? or who loosened the bonds of the forest-ass?

Job 39:19Dost thou give the horse strength? dost thou clothe his neck with the rolling mane?

Psalms 50:9I will not take a bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.

Psalms 104:23Man goeth [then] forth unto his work, and to his labor 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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