Genesis 1:24

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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, the fifth day.

25And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:14And all the wild beasts after their kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile moving itself on the earth after its kind, and every flying bird after its kind,

Job 38:39And wilt thou hunt a prey for the lions? 1 And satisfy the desires of the serpents? 1

Job 39:5And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? 1 And who loosed his bands? 1

Job 39:19Hast thou invested the horse with strength, 1 And clothed his neck with terror? 1

Psalms 50:9Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified: 1 Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow. 1

Psalms 104:23Israel also came into Egypt, 1 And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. 1

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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