Genesis 1:24

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was 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 was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

25God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:14they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

Job 38:39Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

Job 39:5Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

Job 39:19Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?

Psalms 50:9I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,

Psalms 104:23Man goes forth to his work and to his labor 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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