Genesis 1:24

And God says, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, livestock and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind”: and it is so.

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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

23and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] fifth day.

25And God makes the beast of the earth after its kind, and the livestock after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God sees that [it is] good.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:14they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind (every bird, every wing).

Job 38:39Do you hunt prey for a lion? And fulfill the desire of young lions?

Job 39:5Who has sent forth the wild donkey free? Indeed, who opened the bands of the wild donkey?

Job 39:19Do you give might to the horse? Do you clothe his neck [with] a mane?

Psalms 50:9I do not take a bullock from your house, || [Or] male goats from your folds.

Psalms 104:23Man goes forth to his work, || And to his service—until 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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